Introduction: The Monte Carlo simulation is used to enhance reliability in the experiments related to nuclear instruments. in addition, that is used to calculate the different components of the neutron and gamma ray fluxes in boron neutron capture therapy(BNCT) and neutron capture (NCT)applications. BNCT is one of the methods in radiotherapy, that is used the neutron beam for ki...

Background: Boron and gadolinium are among the nuclides that hold a unique property of being a neutron capture therapy agent. Neutron beams have often a considerable portion of gamma rays with fast neutrons. Gamma rays, as beam contaminants, can cause considerable damage to normal tissues even if such tissues do contain high boron concentrations. Materials and Methods: The modification of radio...

Accurate partial gamma-ray production cross sections were determined for the prompt and radioactive product decay gamma rays following cold neutron capture in Tc. They can be used for non-destructive assay of technetium by prompt gamma activation analysis (PGAA) and neutron activation analysis (NAA), offering orders of magnitude higher analytical sensitivities than passive gamma-ray counting. A...

objective: to assess relative biological effectiveness (rbe) of 131i radiation relative to 60co gamma rays in glioblastoma spheroid cells. materials and methods: in this experimental study, glioblastoma spheroid cells were exposed to 131i radiation and 60co gamma rays. radiation induced dna damage was evaluated by alkaline comet assay. samples of spheroid cells were treated by radiation from 13...

background: radiotherapy has many side effects on fertilization in young women. radiation can lead to ovarian failure in women who underwent abdomen or pelvic radiotherapy. objective: this study helps us to investigate ovarian response of nmri female mice to ovarian stimulating hormones (pmsg, hcg) after whole-body gamma irradiation. materials and methods: 45 pregnant mice were divided into two...

A method of measuring gamma-ray relative intensities was developed which used a germanium .bent-crystal spectrometer as a monochromator. The response function of a Nai detector to the essentially monoenergetic gamma rays, obtained from the diffracted beam of the spectrometer, was recorded in a multichannel analyzer. The composite spectrum due to all the gamma rays was then recorded in the analy...