Medical radiation shielding in terms of effective atomic numbers and electron densities of some glasses

Abstract

For more than at decade, oxy-fuoride glasses are the main interest for many researchers. This is due to the importance of glasses as it is used for many different applications. Radiation shielding is one of the important application as it is important for human health. In this study, the gamma ray shielding characters of glasses formulated as (20-x)CaF 2 -xAl 2 O 3 –20Bi 2 O 3 –59B 2 O 3 –CuO (x = 3,6,9,12,15) were investigated. This is done obtaining of linear attenuation coefficients (LAC), effective atomic number (Z eff ) and effective electron density (N eff ) using Phy-X/PSD code.