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B16-Test Beamline	Alanine response to low energy synchrotron x-ray radiation Peregrin Van Den Elzen , Thorsten Sander , Hugo Palmans , Michael Mcmanus , Nathaniel Woodall , Nigel Lee , Oliver J. L. Fox , Roger Michael Jones , Deepa Angal-Kalinin , Anna Subiel Physics In Medicine & Biology DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/acb886 Open Access Show Abstract ▼ Abstract: Alanine pellets with a nominal thickness of 0.5 mm and diameter of 5 mm were irradiated with monoenergetic x-rays at the Diamond Light Source synchrotron, to quantify their response in the 8 to 20 keV range relative to 60Co radiation. The absorbed dose to graphite was measured with a small portable graphite calorimeter, and the DOSRZnrc code in the EGSnrc Monte Carlo package was used to calculate conversion factors between the measured dose to graphite and the absorbed dose to water delivered to the alanine pellets. GafChromic EBT3 films were used to measure the beam profile for modelling in the MC simulations. The relative responses measured in this energy range were found to range from 0.616 to 0.643, with a combined relative expanded uncertainty of 3.4% to 3.5% (k = 2), where the majority of the uncertainty originated from the uncertainty in the alanine readout, due to the small size of the pellets used. The measured values were in good agreement with previously published data in the overlapping region of x-ray energies, while this work extended the dataset to lower energies. By measuring the response to monoenergetic x-rays, the response to a more complex broad-spectrum x-ray source can be inferred if the spectrum is known, meaning that this work supports the establishment of alanine as a secondary standard dosimeter for low-energy x-ray sources.	Feb 2023

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Alanine response to low energy synchrotron x-ray radiation

Peregrin Van Den Elzen , Thorsten Sander , Hugo Palmans , Michael Mcmanus , Nathaniel Woodall , Nigel Lee , Oliver J. L. Fox , Roger Michael Jones , Deepa Angal-Kalinin , Anna Subiel

Physics In Medicine & Biology

DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/acb886