Abstract
A usercode for the EGSnrc Monte Carlo package has been developed for the simulation of whole-body counters with NaI(Tl) detectors in stretcher geometry. The geometry of the whole-body counter and the information about the detectors are specified in a plain text file, which enables users to easily adapt the codes to their installation. Bottle phantoms consisting of 1 and 2 l Cautex bottles filled with the radionuclide dissolved in water have been modelled as phantoms depicting the human body to be measured. These kind of phantoms can be defined by the users in the input file. Sets of efficiency factors for calculating activities from counts in measured spectra have been generated by two methods: 'direct simulation of nuclide decay' uses compiled data on photon energies and yields for all nuclides of interest and simulates a given number of decays of those nuclides for phantom masses from 10 to 100 kg while 'single-energy simulation' uses idealized 'nuclides' with single-energy emissions of 100 % yield to study the response of the systems over the energy range of interest (0-2000 keV in 20-keV steps). At University Hospital of Cologne and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology both methods have been successfully applied for the evaluation of spectra measured within intercomparison exercises.
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