论文标题
蒙特卡洛模拟，证明了伽马，电子和X射线辐射灭菌的当量物理学
Monte Carlo Simulations Demonstrating Physics of Equivalency of Gamma, Electronbeam, and X-ray for Radiation Sterilization
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论文摘要
使用钴60衰减中的伽马射线对医疗设备进行灭菌已经积累了数十年的经验经验，这些经验是被照射的材料和设备的性能。使用电子束和X射线使用辐射的经验要少得多，这导致了这三种技术之间的等效问题。进行了计算机模拟，以模拟三种辐射形式中每种形式的相互作用的相关物理过程，以比较低于500 keV的能量的电子能的光谱。主要是该阈值以下的电子产生灭菌剂量。在三种类型的初始辐射之间未看到能光谱差异。可以得出结论，伽马，电子和X射线之间没有用于辐射灭菌的能量差异。
The sterilization of medical devices using the gamma rays from the decay of cobalt-60 has accumulated decades of experience of the performance of the materials and devices that are irradiated. The use of radiation using electron beams and x-rays has much less experience and this leads to questions of equivalency between these three technologies. Computer simulations were conducted to model the relevant physical processes of the interactions of each of the three forms of radiation in order to compare the spectra of electron energies at energies below 500 keV. It is predominantly the electrons below this threshold that produce the sterilization dose. No difference in energy spectra was seen between the three types of initial radiation. It is concluded that there is no energy dependent difference between gamma, electron, and x-ray for radiation sterilization.
