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2024 ANS Annual Conference
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Commercial nuclear innovation "new space" age
In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
Fatih Ekinci, Erkan Bostanci, Mehmet Serdar Güzel, Özlem Dagli
Nuclear Technology | Volume 209 | Number 8 | August 2023 | Pages 1229-1239
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2023.2188144
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Biomaterials are indispensable elements for improving human health and quality of life. Applications of biomaterials include the use of phantoms as tissue replacement in diagnostics (biosensors), medical supplies (blood bags and surgical instruments), therapeutic treatments (medical implants and devices), regenerative medicine (tissue engineered skin and cartilage), and radiation dosimetric studies. Since polymers are organic, they offer a much more versatile usage area than metals and ceramic biomaterials, particularly in soft tissue substitutes. The wide physical, mechanical, and chemical properties provided by polymers have encouraged extensive research, development, and application of polymeric biomaterials. Their usage as a soft tissue phantom is at the forefront of these applications.
In this study, the ionization, recoils, phonon release, collision events, and lateral straggle properties of polymeric biomaterials [e.g., polymethylmetacrylate (PMMA), polystyrene, polyethylene, polypropylene, and polyvinylchloride] closest to soft tissue are investigated in carbon therapy application. The Brag peak location achieved for PMMA is quite close to that of soft tissue, within 4.8%, average recoils within 0.5%, and collision event parameter within 0.6%, however, lateral scattering is comparatively larger by roughly 6.8%, according to TRIM-based Monte Carlo simulation results. Thus, when carbon ion is taken into account, the current findings show that PMMA is one of the possible polymeric biomaterials to simulate soft tissue in terms of radiation interaction properties.