Dear all,
thanks to the support received in this mailing-list, we succeeded in
calculating the average energy deposition per disintegration for some
radionuclides, uniformly distributed in cubic voxels of soft tissue.
The results for Yttrium-90 and Phosporus-32 are in very good agreement
with our results obtained with other MC codes, and with published data.
We find a rough disagreement for Iodine-131 isotope, obtaining results
approximately double with respect to the expected ones.
In fact, we obtain <Edep> = 335 keV instead of about 178 keV for
6mm-side voxel, and 315 instead of about 161 keV for 3 mm voxel.
Is it possible that some mistake is contained in the 131-I emission
spectrum?
Best regards,
Ernesto Amato
-- Dr. Ernesto Amato, PhD EP - Physicist University of Messina - Italy Department of Radiological Sciences Nuclear Medicine Unit email: ernesto.amato_at_unime.it tel: +39 090 221 2942/3789 fax: +39 090 221 2843Received on Wed Sep 23 2009 - 17:22:06 CEST
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