A virtual laboratory for radiotracer and sealed-source applications in industry

Mohammed Siddig; Essam M. Banoqitah; Ezzat Elmoujarkach; Abdulsalam M. Alhawsawi; Fathi Djouider

doi:10.2478/nuka-2021-0003

A virtual laboratory for radiotracer and sealed-source applications in industry

Mohammed Siddig (Corresponding Author), Essam M. Banoqitah, Ezzat Elmoujarkach, Abdulsalam M. Alhawsawi, Fathi Djouider

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King Abdulaziz University

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Abstract

Radioactive sealed sources and radiotracer techniques are used to diagnose industrial process units. This work introduces a workspace to simulate four sealed sources and radiotracer applications, namely, gamma scanning of distillation columns, gamma scanning of pipes, gamma transmission tomography, and radiotracer flow rate measurements. The workspace was created in Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE) simulation toolkit and was called Industrial Radioisotope Applications Virtual Laboratory. The flexibility of GATE and the fact that it is an open-source software render it advantageous to radioisotope technology practitioners, educators, and students. The comparison of the simulation results with experimental results that are available in the literature showed the effectiveness of the virtual laboratory.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	21-27
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nukleonika
Volume	66
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2478/nuka-2021-0003
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2021
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

GATE
Industrial gamma tomography
Radiotracers
Sealed sources
Simulation

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A virtual laboratory for radiotracer and sealed-source applications in industry

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