29May 2017

MEASUREMENT OF EFFECTIVE ATOMIC NUMBER AND ELECTRON DENSITY OF CARBOHYDRATES BY USING NIST, Geant4 AND NaI(Tl) : A COMPARATIVE STUDY.

  • Department of Physics, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, 431004 India.
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The Monte Carlo simulation applying for calculation of mass attenuation coefficient, total attenuation cross section, electronic cross section, effective atomic number (Zeff), effective electron density (Neff) at incident photon energy 122 keV, 360 keV, 511 keV, 662 keV, 840 keV, 1170 keV, 1275 keV and 1330 keV of Fructose, Maltose, Cellulose, Sorbitol, Raffinose, Xylose carbohydrates. We used narrow beam geometry NaI(Tl) scintillation detector with 8K multichannel analyser having resolution 8.2 % at 662 keV. The Zeff and Neff results experimentally by NaI(Tl) scintillation detector compared with Geant4 monte carlo simulation observed less uncertainties. We observed that Geant4 simulation important toolkit of radiation measurement for biological material and especially medical diagnosis.

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[Rajkumar M. Lokhande, Bharat S. Surung and Pravina P. Pawar. (2017); MEASUREMENT OF EFFECTIVE ATOMIC NUMBER AND ELECTRON DENSITY OF CARBOHYDRATES BY USING NIST, Geant4 AND NaI(Tl) : A COMPARATIVE STUDY. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (May). 1733-1740] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Rajkumar M. Lokhande

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4303      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4303

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