Caracterização do campo de nêutrons na instalação para estudo em BNCT no Reator IEA-R1 / NEUTRON FIELD CHARACTERIZATION IN THE INSTALLATION FOR BNCT STUDY IN THE IEA R1 REACTOR.

AUTOR(ES)

Valdeci Carneiro Junior

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

This work aims to characterize the mixed neutron and gamma field, in the sample irradiation position, in a research installation for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT), in the IPEN IEA-R1 reactor. The BNCT technique has been studied as a safe and selective option in the treatment of resistant cancerigenous tumors or considered non-curable by the conventional techniques, for example, the Glioblastoma Multiform a brain cancerigenous tumor. Neutron flux measurements were carried out: thermal, ressonance and fast, as well as neutron and gamma rays doses, in the sample position, using activation foils detectors and thermoluminescent dosimeters. For the determination of the neutron spectrum and intensity, a set of different threshold activation foils and gold foils covered and uncovered with cadmium irradiated in the installation was used, analyzed by a high Pure Germanium semiconductor detector, coupled to an electronic system suitable for gamma spectrometry. The results were processed with the SAND-BP code. The doses due to gamma and neutron rays were determined using thermoluminescent dosimeters TLD 400 and TLD 700 sensitive to gamma and TLD 600, sensitive to neutrons. The TLDs were selected and used for obtaining the calibration curves dosimeter answer versus dose from each of the TLD three types, which were necessary to calculate the doses due to neutron and gamma, in the sample position. The radiation field, in the sample irradiation position, was characterized flux for thermal neutrons of 1.39.108 ± 0,12.108 n/cm2s the doses due to thermal neutrons are three times higher than those due to gamma radiation and confirm the reproducibility and consistency of the experimental findings obtained. Considering these results, the neutron field and gamma radiation showed to be appropriated for research in BNCT

ASSUNTO(S)

nèutrons radiação gama tld bnct radiação gama tld nêutrons bnct

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