The results show that the medical staff effective dose is highly dependent on the position of the medical staff. The results also show that the maximum medical staff effective dose in an emergency situation in the presence of a patient is ~ mSv/s. | Evaluation of the medical staff effective dose during boron neutron capture therapy using two high resolution voxel-based whole body phantoms Nuclear Engineering and Technology 49 (2017) 1505e1512 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Nuclear Engineering and Technology journal homepage: Original Article Evaluation of the medical staff effective dose during boron neutron capture therapy using two high resolution voxel-based whole body phantoms Mohadeseh Golshanian a, b, Ali Akbar Rajabi a, c, Yaser Kasesaz b, * a Department of Physics, Shahrood University, Shahrood, Iran b Reactor and Nuclear Safety Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute (NSTRI), Tehran, Iran c Shams Institute of Higher Education, Gonbad, Iran a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Because accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) systems are planned for use in hos- Received 10 November 2016 pitals, entry into the medical room should be controlled as hospitals are generally assumed to be public Received in revised form and safe places. In this paper, computational investigation of the medical staff effective dose during BNCT 21 January 2017 has been performed in different situations using Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP4C) code and two voxel Accepted 6 June 2017 Available online 9 July 2017 based male phantoms. The results show that the medical staff effective dose is highly dependent on the position of the medical staff. The results also show that the maximum medical staff effective dose in an emergency situation in the presence of a patient is ~ mSv/s. Keywords: BNCT © 2017 Korean Nuclear Society, Published by Elsevier Korea LLC. This is an open access article under the Effective Dose CC BY-NC-ND license (). ICRP 110 Voxel-based Phantom MCNP4C Monte Carlo Code Medical Staff 1. Introduction .
