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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">pimi</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Приборы и методы измерений</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Devices and Methods of Measurements</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2220-9506</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2414-0473</issn><publisher><publisher-name>BNTU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.21122/2220-9506-2023-14-3-179-190</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">pimi-830</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Средства измерений</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Measuring instruments</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>О возможности использования медицинских линейных ускорителей электронов в качестве источника поля эталонного импульсного фотонного излучения</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>On the Possibility of Using Medical Linear Electron Accelerators as a Source of the Reference Pulsed Photon Radiation Field</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Загороднюк</surname><given-names>А. А.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Zaharadniuk</surname><given-names>A. A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>ул. Гикало, 5, г. Минск 220005</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>SPE «ATOMTEX», Gikalo str., 5, Minsk 220005, Belarus</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">fiz.zagorodnAA@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Тараев</surname><given-names>А. Ю.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Taraev</surname><given-names>A. Y.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>ул. Гикало, 5, г. Минск 220005</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>SPE «ATOMTEX», Gikalo str., 5, Minsk 220005, Belarus</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Лазаренко</surname><given-names>С. В.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Lazarenko</surname><given-names>S. V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>ул. Гикало, 5, г. Минск 220005</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>SPE «ATOMTEX», Gikalo str., 5, Minsk 220005, Belarus</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>АТОМТЕХ</institution><country>Беларусь</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>ATOMTEX</institution><country>Belarus</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2023</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>05</day><month>10</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>14</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>179</fpage><lpage>190</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Загороднюк А.А., Тараев А.Ю., Лазаренко С.В., 2023</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Загороднюк А.А., Тараев А.Ю., Лазаренко С.В.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Zaharadniuk A.A., Taraev A.Y., Lazarenko S.V.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://pimi.bntu.by/jour/article/view/830">https://pimi.bntu.by/jour/article/view/830</self-uri><abstract><p>Генерирующие источники импульсного фотонного излучения находят все большее применение в науке и промышленности. В связи с этим растёт потребность в приборах дозиметрического контроля, способных работать в полях импульсного фотонного излучения. Однако до настоящего времени нет исчерпывающей методики, описывающей критерии выбора источников эталонных полей импульсного фотонного излучения, необходимых для калибровки и поверки дозиметрического оборудования. Целью работы являлось изучение возможности использования медицинского линейного ускорителя электронов (далее ЛУЭ) в качестве генерирующего источника эталонного поля импульсного фотонного излучения для калибровки и поверки дозиметрического оборудования. В работе исследовались основные характеристики поля фотонного излучения (спектр и средняя энергия излучения, мощность кермы в воздухе и мощность амбиентного эквивалента дозы Ḣ*(10), создаваемая полем в заданной точке), генерируемого ЛУЭ в двух режимах работы: 6 МВ и 18 МВ. Дополнительно исследовалась возможность ослабления интенсивности фотонного излучения ЛУЭ свинцовым фильтром. Экспериментальное определение мощности кермы в воздухе (далее мощность кермы), генерируемой полем фотонного излучения ЛУЭ в заданной точке, производилось путём прямых измерений при помощи эталонного дозиметра. Расчёт спектра и средней энергии фотонного излучения ЛУЭ, производился при помощи Монте-Карло моделирования в программе Fluka. На основе результатов измерений и моделирования произведен расчёт мощностей амбиентного эквивалента дозы Ḣ*(10), генерируемых ЛУЭ в заданной точке. Установлено, что свинцовый фильтр эффективно ослабляет фотонное излучение ЛУЭ как по мощности кермы, так и по мощности амбиентного эквивалента дозы до уровней, подходящих для калибровки и поверки дозиметрического оборудования, предназначенного для работы в полях импульсного излучения. Показано, что свинцовый фильтр существенно влияет как на спектр фотонного излучения ЛУЭ, так и на его среднюю энергию.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Sources of pulsed photon radiation are widely used in science and industry. In this regard, there is a growing demand for dosimetry instruments capable of operating in these pulsed photon radiation fields. Until now there is no comprehensive methodology that describes the characteristics of reference fields of pulsed photon radiation required for calibration and verification of dosimetry equipment. The aim of this paper was to study the possibility of using a medical linear electron accelerator as a generating source of a reference pulsed photon radiation field. The paper investigates main characteristics of photon radiation field (namely, spectrum and average energy) generated by CLINAC in two modes of operation: 6 MV and 18 MV. Additionally it researches the possibility of attenuation of the CLINAC photon radiation intensity by a lead filter. The spectrum and average energy of the CLINAC photon radiation were calculated by means of Monte Carlo simulation in the Fluka program. The validation of the calculation was determined by comparing the attenuation coefficients calculated by the model with ones obtained experimentally by using real CLINACs. Experimentally, the attenuation coefficients were obtained by measuring the air kerma rate generated by the photon radiation fields of Varian VitalBeam and Varian iX CLINACs at a given point of space. Based on the simulation results, the Ḣ*(10) ambient dose equivalent ratio generated by CLINACs were calculated. It was found that the lead filter effectively attenuates the CLINAC photon radiation in terms of both air kerma rate and ambient dose equivalent rate to levels suitable for calibration of dosimetry equipment designed to measure pulsed radiation. It is shown that the lead filter significantly affects both the photon spectrum of the CLINAC and its average energy.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Монте-Карло моделирование</kwd><kwd>линейный ускоритель электронов</kwd><kwd>импульсное фотонное излучение</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Monte Carlo modelling</kwd><kwd>linear electron accelerator</kwd><kwd>pulsed photon radiation</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Коржик М.В. Перспективы ядерно-физических исследований в Беларуси // Журнал Белорусского государственного университета. Физика. – 2021. – C. 62–66. DOI: 10.33581/2520-2243-2021-3-62-66</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Kоrzhik МV. Outlook for nuclear physics research in Belarus. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Physics. 2021;(3):62-66. (In Russ.). 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