Monte Carlo simulations for low doses of neutrons
Title: |
Monte Carlo simulations for low doses of neutrons |
DNr: |
SNIC 2015/1-173 |
Project Type: |
SNIC Medium Compute |
Principal Investigator: |
Monika Puchalska <puzji77@gmail.com> |
Affiliation: |
Chalmers tekniska högskola |
Duration: |
2015-05-01 – 2016-05-01 |
Classification: |
10399 |
Homepage: |
http://www.andanteproject.eu/ |
Keywords: |
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Abstract
The project will investigate risk of cancer from exposure to low doses of neutrons. The project will combine the disciplines of radiation physics, radiobiology, and epidemiology to develop a risk model that will be tested in a prospective study on the incidence of second cancers following exposure to scattered neutrons following pediatric proton therapy.
The final project results are likely to make a major contribution to our understanding of the risks from low-dose exposure to neutrons, and how the risk vary with neutron energy and dose.
The work within this project includes many tasks. The ones we are involved in concern:
Characterization of the experimental radiation beams and determination of full radiation field at the point of interest;
Measurement and modelling of neutron fluence and energy spectra out of the treatment field in proton therapy beams.
Modelling will be performed using a MC code PHITS.