Evaluation of the Effect of Different Nanoparticles on the Mass Attenuation Coefficient of a Shield in Diagnostic Radiology: A Monte Carlo Study
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Abstract
Purpose: This research aimed to estimate the Mass Attenuation Coefficient (MAC) for the various nanoparticles in diagnostic imaging in order to assess and compare the changes in a bulk state.
Materials and Methods: To Using Monte Carlo N-Particle eXtended (MCNPX) code, nanoparticles were simulated in the target in order to compute the MAC considering the target. The Materials, including Bi, Pb NPs, Pb, W NPs, W, PbO NPs, Bi NPs, Bi2O3 NPs, and WO3 NPs were used in the present study. The gathered data were compared with the theoretical results of the XCOM software for validation.
Results: The findings demonstrated that the radioprotective characteristics of nanoparticles in comparison to the bulk materials were better. Among all these nanoparticles, the rate of attenuation of tungsten nanoparticles was higher than that of other nanoparticles. On the other hand, the density and attenuation rate of nanoparticles of PbO, Bi2O3 and WO3 were lower than those of nanoparticles Pb, W, and Bi. Therefore, all of the abovementioned nanoparticles were lightweight and their design was more flexible than that of bulk materials.
Conclusion: It was concluded that the use of nanoparticles in the protective materials considerably increased the radioprotective characteristics in the diagnostic radiography energy range.
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9- Khatibeh Verdipoor, Abdolali Alemi, and Asghar Mesbahi, "Photon mass attenuation coefficients of a silicon resin loaded with WO3, PbO, and Bi2O3 Micro and Nano-particles for radiation shielding." Radiation Physics and Chemistry, Vol. 147pp. 85-90, (2018).
10- Aa Aghaz, Ra Faghihi, SMJb Mortazavi, Ac Haghparast, Sd Mehdizadeh, and Sd Sina, "Radiation attenuation properties of shields containing micro and Nano WO3 in diagnostic X-ray energy range." International Journal of Radiation Research, Vol. 14 (No. 2), p. 127, (2016).
11- Yu Dong et al., "Effects of WO3 particle size in WO3/epoxy resin radiation shielding material." Chinese Physics Letters, Vol. 29 (No. 10), p. 108102, (2012).
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14- Zhanhu Guo et al., "Effects of iron oxide nanoparticles on polyvinyl alcohol: interfacial layer and bulk nanocomposites thin film." Journal of Nanoparticle Research, Vol. 12pp. 2415-26, (2010).
15- Srinath Pai, Vincent Crasta, and B Shreeprakash, "Studies of the effect of nanoparticle dopants and blending of different polymers on Physical, Electrical, Optical and Micro structural properties of PVA-a Review." in International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials & Emerging Engineering Technologies, (2013): IEEE, pp. 620-26.
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21- JP McCaffrey, F Tessier, and H Shen, "Radiation shielding materials and radiation scatter effects for interventional radiology (IR) physicians." Medical physics, Vol. 39 (No. 7Part1), pp. 4537-46, (2012).
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24- Elahe Sayyadi, Asghar Mesbahi, Reza Eghdam Zamiri, and Farshad Seyyed Nejad, "A comprehensive Monte Carlo study to design a novel multi-nanoparticle loaded nanocomposites for augmentation of attenuation coefficient in the energy range of diagnostic X-rays." Polish Journal of Medical Physics and Engineering, Vol. 27 (No. 4), pp. 279-89, (2021).
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Khosravi H, Ghazikhanlusani K, Jafari S, Nikzad S. Evaluation of the Effect of Different Nanoparticles on the Mass Attenuation Coefficient of a Shield in Diagnostic Radiology: A Monte Carlo Study. Frontiers Biomed Technol. 2023;10(4):427-432.
