Gamma radiation shielding properties of glasses within the TeO2-TiO2-ZnO system
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M. Almatari
Abstract
Radiations are widely used in hospitals and health services in radiotherapy and molecular imaging using x-ray and gamma radiation which considered as the most penetrating radiations and very difficult to shield. In this study, the radiation shielding properties of different zinc oxide (ZnO) concentrations of the (95-x)TeO2-5TiO2-xZnO (x=5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 40 mol%) glass system was investigated to be introduced as a new transparency effective shielding material. In order to study shielding properties, mass attenuation coefficients in the energy range of 0.015–15 MeV photon energies for the current glass system were calculated using ParShield software. Moreover, half value layer, mean free path and effective atomic number were evaluated using the obtained attenuation coefficient. The results indicated that if ZnO was added to the current glass system the mass attenuation coefficient will be decreased as well as effective atomic number values. The highest mass attenuation coefficient at all energies was found to be in TT5Z5 glass sample as well as the effective atomic number value.
Acknowledgments
The author gratefully acknowledge to Dr Y. Elmahroug for providing the Parshield software.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- A response surface model of morphological changes in UO₂ and U₃O₈ following high temperature aging
- Removal of U(VI) from aqueous solution using phosphate functionalized bacterial cellulose as efficient adsorbent
- DST-deactivation of nickel-63 nitrate
- Studies on purification of 89Sr from irradiated yttria target by multi-column extraction chromatography using DtBuCH18-C-6/XAD-7 resin
- Assessment of radioactivity from selected soil samples from Halfa Aljadida area, Sudan
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- Gamma radiation shielding properties of glasses within the TeO2-TiO2-ZnO system
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