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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on February 22, 2005
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/nch426
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© The Author (2005). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org
Received June 22, 2004
Revised September 10, 2004
Accepted October 27, 2004

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PAPER

MONTE CARLO STUDY OF MOSFET DOSEMETER CHARACTERISTICS: DOSE DEPENDENCE ON PHOTON ENERGY, DIRECTION AND DOSEMETER COMPOSITION

Brian Wang 1, X. George Xu 1, and Chan-Hyeong Kim 2*

1 Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics Program, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA
2 Nuclear Engineering Department, Hanyang University, 17 Haengdang-dong, Sungdong-gu, Seoul, 133-791, Korea

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Chan-Hyeong Kim, E-mail: chkim{at}hanyang.ac.kr


  Abstract

MOSFET dosemeters are emerging as a versatile tool in various medical physics and health physics dose measurements. It is an important but difficult task to understand their energy and directional dependences because of their unique features. This paper presents a study to characterise a MOSFET dosemeter using Monte Carlo simulation method. Monoenergetic photon beams ranging from 15 to 6 MeV were simulated to study the energy and angular dependences. The results were compared with published experimental data. The Monte Carlo model also provided insightful information on optimising the dosemeter design by examining how various regions of the dosemeter contributed to the dose. Detailed energy deposition processes were further analysed by tracking individual particles inside the dosemeter.


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