Monte Carlo calculation of organ and effective doses due to photon and neutron point sources and typical X-ray examinations: Results of an international intercomparison exercise

Cristelle Huet, Jon Eakins, Maria Zankl, José Maria Gómez-Ros, Jan Jansen, Montse Moraleda, Lara Struelens, Deepak K. Akar, Jorge Borbinha, Hrvoje Brkic, Duc Ky Bui, Kevin Capello, Thi My Linh Dang, Laurent Desorgher, Salvatore Di Maria, Lior Epstein, Dario Faj, Karin Fantinova, Paolo Ferrari, Sebastian GossioJohn Hunt, Zoran Jovanović, Han Sung Kim, Dragana Krstic, Ngoc Theim Le, Yi-Kang Lee, Manohari Murugan, Minal Y. Nadar, Ngoc-Quynh Nguyen, Dragoslav Nikezic, Hernant K. Patni, Denison Souza Santos, Marilyn Tremblay, Sebastian Trivino, Katarzyna Tyminska

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    Abstract

    This paper summarizes the results of an intercomparison on the use of the ICRP Reference Computational Phantoms with radiation transport codes, which was organized by EURADOS working group 6. Three exercises are described: exposure to an anterior-posterior (AP) photon point source, exposure to an AP neutron point source, and exposure to two typical medical X-ray examinations. The three exercises received 17, 8 and 8 solutions, respectively. Participants originated from fifteen different countries, and used a wide range of Monte Carlo codes. Due to difficulties in defining the precise source location unambiguously in the exercise description, agreement to within ∼10% of the reference solution was considered satisfactory for a given participant's results. Although some participants provided initial solutions in good agreement with the reference solutions, differences of several tens of percent, or even several orders of magnitude, were exhibited for many of the others. Following feedback and suggestions from the organizers, revised solutions were submitted by some of the participants for the photon exercises; in general, agreement was improved. The overall observations from these three intercomparison exercises are summarized and discussed.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number106695
    Number of pages16
    JournalRadiation Measurements
    Volume150
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Jan 2022

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