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Validation of the DoseCalcs Monte Carlo code for estimating the 18F S-values for ICRP adult and 15-year-old male and female phantoms

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Internal radiation exposure using radiopharmaceuticals, as in nuclear medicine procedures, necessitates the estimation of the S-value to determine and improve the estimates of absorbed doses in at-risk organs and tissues. The S value is defined as the absorbed dose in the target organ per unit of nuclear transformation in the source organ. It is calculated using the specific absorbed fraction, which is an important quantity that connects the deposited energy in the target and emitting source organs. In this study, we applied DoseCalcs, a new Geant4-based tool, to estimate the S values of \(^{18}\)F using nuclear data from ICRP Publication 107. Geometrical data from ICRP Publications 110 and 143 were used to select four models representing male and female phantoms for adults and 15 years old to study the variability in the S-values arising from variations in anatomy and initial energy validations, because we used the \(\beta\) mean energy instead of the full beta spectrum. The \(^{18}\)F-released photons and \(\beta\) from 26 source organs were tracked using the Geant4 Livermore package. Accordingly, the S-values were calculated for 141 target organs. The results for the adult male and female phantoms were compared with the OpenDose reference data. These results agreed well with OpenDose, the average ratio for self-absorption S-values was 1.015, and the average ratios for the cross-irradiation were 1.2 and 1.22 for the AM and AF, respectively. This indicates the accuracy of DoseCalcs for subsequent use in estimating \(^{18}\)F S-values using voxelized geometries.

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    Tarik El Ghalbzouri, Tarek El Bardouni, Jaafar El Bakkali, Hafssa Ziani & Abderrahim Doudouh

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El Ghalbzouri, T., El Bardouni, T., El Bakkali, J. et al. Validation of the DoseCalcs Monte Carlo code for estimating the 18F S-values for ICRP adult and 15-year-old male and female phantoms. Radiol Phys Technol 16, 212–226 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12194-023-00709-2

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