Calculation of the Gamma Radiation Dose Produced by a Cylindrical Radioactive Source

摘要

The dose rate produced by a gamma photons source with cylindrical shape having the radius R-0 and height h was calculated. The calculations are complicated (laborious) because it involves many variables changes followed by application of the corresponding integration methods. The final expression of the dose contains both the source characteristic parameters and the two variable parameters R and z, defining the point of interest Q where the dose is calculated. Obtaining the four particular situations of the dose rate calculation is a proof that (26) final expression is general.