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Neutron Capture Therapy (NCT), is a radiotherapy technique in which the useful treatment energy comes from the energy released in a nuclear reaction and not from the primary beam, as commonly used in other radiotherapc procedures. Boron, an element of low toxicity presents an isotope (10B) with high cross-section for the (n, α) reaction and therefore has been the element mostly used in research aimed at the improvement and promotion of this technique, deriving hence the term BNCT (Boron Neutron Capture Therapy). For BNCT research purposes, a facility was built along one of radiation extractors of the IEA-R1 reactor. In this facility filters and moderators are positioned between the reactor core and the irradiation position aiming to modulate the irradiation beam by optimizing the useful component of the beam, thermal neutrons, and reducing it’s contaminants, gamma rays and neutrons in higher energy bands. We have conducted studies aimed at implementing improvements in the characterization of and optimization of the beam. Currently, neutron flux monitorion is done through activation foils, and the gamma component by TLD-400. A new methodology has been studied by the group. The technique consists in using different types of TLD, having different sensitivities to thermal neutrons due to differences in the concentration of lithium isotopes. In the study of this new methodology TLD 600 and TLD-700 have been used. This work presents a series of studies in order to apply a methodology using the TLD-100 and TLD-700 pair. TLDs 700, 400 and 100 responses pure gamma and mixed irradiation fields, obtained in arrangements using a 60Co and AmBe sources, were evaluaterd. MCNP simulations were run in order to both discriminating the radiation components and designing one mixed fields irradiator, which allowed exposing dosimeters in mixed fields with different energy spectra. The conditions created in the irradiator allowed to verify, as the TLD response is modified by changes in the energy spectrum of a mixed gamma neutron fields.

Estudo das respostas de TLD tipo LiF para caracterização de campos mistos