Calculation of dose equivalents in organs due to photoneutrons from clinical accelerators

Radiotherapy with photon and electron beams still represents the most technique to control and treat tumour diseases. To increase the treatment efficiency of this technique is linked to the increase of beam energy, resulting in fast neutrons in the radiotherapic beams that contribute with an undesired dose to the patient. In this work has been calculated, using the MCNP4B computer code radiation of transport and an mathematical anthropomorphic phantom, the equivalent doses in organs originated from generated photoneutrons from heads of linear accelerators of medical use, that operates in the 15 MV, 18 MV, 20 MV and 25 MV. The calculated values for the equivalent doses in organs established by the 74 publication of ICRP has show variations between 0.11 mSv.n Gy-1 and 7.03 mSv.n Gy-1, for the accelerator that uses 18 MV therapic beams, showing good agreement with existing values in the literature. (author)