Speaker
Abner Ivan Castro Campoy
(INFN-LNF)
Description
X-ray dosimetry is a relevant topic in medicine, industry and research. With the purpose of providing a facility for the characterisation of devices to be used in these fields, a 40-110 kV C-Arm-type medical X-ray unit was adapted to produce X-ray fields with known dose rate and energy distribution, following the recommendations of ISO. It operates with constant kV and continuous or pulsed emission with current from 0.1 up to 3 mA. Owing to an Image Intensifier unit with field of view 20 cm (diameter), it allows non-destructive inspection of the devices in addition to their irradiation in a known field. This communication describes the facility, the monitor instruments and the characteristics of the available X-ray fields.
Author
Abner Ivan Castro Campoy
(INFN-LNF)
Co-authors
Roberto Bedogni
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Luigi Russo
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Miguel Angel Caballero Pacheco
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Felipe Lopes Frigi
(INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))
Antonino Pietropaolo
(ENEA Nuclear Tecnologies Laboratory)