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Determination of Mass Attenuation Coefficient for some Technetium‐99m Compounds
Author(s) -
Manjunath A.,
Ashwini A.,
Kerur B. R.,
Pushpanjali G. M.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
macromolecular symposia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-3900
pISSN - 1022-1360
DOI - 10.1002/masy.202000095
Subject(s) - attenuation , attenuation coefficient , mass attenuation coefficient , electromagnetic shielding , photon , nuclear physics , collimator , materials science , physics , radiochemistry , nuclear medicine , chemistry , optics , medicine , composite material
Mass attenuation is a measure of the average number of interaction between incident photons and the matter that occur in a given mass per unit area thickness of the substance. Hence, the importance of mass attenuation coefficient is found in different fields viz., radiation shielding, medical fields, aeronautical engineering, photon transport, space research, military, security checking purposes (most important now‐a‐days), and research and development, etc. Hence, in view of the above applications this mass attenuation coefficient is estimated by WinXCom program which is the successor of program Xcom for the technetium‐99m compounds such as mebrofenin, disofenin, lidofenin, bisicate, and exametazime for the photon energy range from 8 to 32 keV.