Re: USRBIN, DOSE: Which units are used to express scored absorbed dose?

From: Alberto Fasso' <fasso_at_SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 11:59:04 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Alexandr,

doses are expressed in GeV/g per unit primary weight.
Thank you for spotting the error in the manual.

Alberto

On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Alexandr Malusek wrote:

> Dear FLUKA users,
>
> Which units are used to express scored absorbed dose? The documentation s=
ays:
>
>> Energy deposition will be expressed in GeV per cm3 per unit primary weig=
ht.
>> Doses will be expressed in Gy per unit primary weight.
>
> I use USRBIN and DOSE to score absorbed dose in a water phantom, see the =
following cards:
>
> USRBIN 11. DOSE -40. 80.0 0.0 30.0Dos=
e
> USRBIN 0.0 0.0 0.0 160. 1. 60.&
>
> The value reported by FLUKA for the surface of the water phantom is 5.922=
83905e-3. The scoring was performed for protons with kinetic energy of 0.2 =
GeV in a cylinder with radius r =3D 0.5 cm and height h =3D 0.5cm. A simple=
 estimate of the absorbed dose based on the mass stopping power Sm(0.2 GeV)=
 =3D 4.492 MeV cm^2/g gives:
>
> D =3D energy_imparted / mass =3D (Sm * h * rho) / (pi * r^2 * h * rho) =
=3D Sm / (pi *r^2) =3D 5.72e-3 GeV/g =3D 9.15e-10 Gy.
>
> The value reported by FLUKA is similar to the estimate expressed in GeV/g=
, but the fluka2008.manual says that doses are expressed in Gy. I'm confuse=
d.
>
> Regards,
> Alexandr
> --
> Alexandr Malusek
> Department of Medical and Health Sciences
> Division of Radiological Sciences / Radiation Physics
> Faculty of Health Sciences
> SE-581 85 Link=F6ping
> Sweden
>
>

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