Analysis of the shielding design for medical linear accelerator room

This paper is to evaluate and inspect the protective ability of the shielding walls and door with various thickness against the primary and secondary radiation coming from X-rays transferred by use of a medical accelerator according to the optimized parameters. The result indicates that the calculated thickness of the wall (except labyrinth interior wall) and accelerator facility roof could fit both the protection criterion and desired value of dose management for 15 MeV X-rays. Furthermore, the protective door should be added with a Pb layer of 8.3 mm and a polyethylene containing boron layer of 6.9 cm to meet the shielding requirement of X-rays and neutron, respectively. (authors)