Published January 2016 | Version v1
Journal article

X-ray attenuation coefficient of various metals in ICRU-44 breast tissue

  • 1. Department of Medical Physics, Rashtra Sant Tukdoji Regional Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Nagpur (India)
  • 2. Department of Photonics, Nuclear and Medical Physics Division, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology University, Vellore (India)

Description

In the present study, we are calculating the mass attenuation coefficient and mass absorption coefficient of various biocompatible metals in ICRU-44 Breast tissues. We are choosing five biocompatible metals such as Gold, platinum, Hafnium, Gadolinium and silver. WinXCOM database are used to generate the mass attenuation and mass absorption coefficient of metal and ICRU 44 Breast tissue over the energy range of 1 KeV to 20 MeV. Simple additivity is used to calculate the coefficient at 0.1% of metal and 0.9% of Breast tissue component

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Radiation and Cancer Research
Journal Volume
7
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 14
ISSN
0973-0168

Conference

Title
international conference on radiation research - impact on human health and environment and first biennial meeting of society for radiation research: abstracts
Acronym
ICRR-HHE 2016
Dates
11-13 Oct 2016
Place
Mumbai (India)

INIS

Country of Publication
India
Country of Input or Organization
India
INIS RN
47104232
Subject category
S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ANIMAL TISSUES; HAFNIUM; MAMMARY GLANDS; RADIATION DOSES; RADIOTHERAPY
Descriptors DEC
BODY; DOSES; ELEMENTS; GLANDS; MEDICINE; METALS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; ORGANS; RADIOLOGY; REFRACTORY METALS; THERAPY; TRANSITION ELEMENTS