Impact evaluation of the geometry on measurements of solid radioactive waste exposure rates in nuclear medicine

INTRODUCTION: The objective of this paper is to verify the influence of the source geometry on Geiger Müller (GM) exposure rate data. This paper presents a validation of an application based on Monte Carlo (MC) data simulated using Geant4, based on a comparison of the exposure rates calculated via MC and Deterministic Calculations (DC) to experimental (measured) exposure rates. METHODS: Experimental data that were collected through measurements of standard sources were used for MC and DC validation. In addition, the best method of analyzing the impact of the real source geometry on calculatio...