Potential of rhizophora spp particleboard treated with soy flour as water equivalent material

Water is a recognized tissue equivalent material. due to some reason,water is not a suitable material to use as the daily routine in quality assurance assessment. in this paper,rhizophora spp was treated with soy flour were applied to fabricate solid water equivalent material. nine samples of three different particle sizes of rhizophora spp as well as their treatment level were prepared. an innovative approach,x-ray fluorescence was used to measure the unknown attenuation coefficient while field emission scanning electron microscopy was presented to evaluate the microscopy structure of desired samples. effective energy range between 15.7 to 26.7 kev was used to measure the mass attenuation coefficient of the fabricated particleboard. all the results were compared with the water value in xcom database. this study showed that there was no significant difference (p>0.05) between mass attenuation coefficient of sample with the water value from xcom. in addition,the morphology images were improved for post-treated compared to untreated rhizophora spp particleboard. based on these results,rhizophora spp particleboard is amenable as an alternative window of purported water equivalent material. © 2015 penerbit utm press. all rights reserved.