The preservation of cultural heritage is very important. Ionizing radiation is widely used for this purpose and use of gamma irradiation has become common practice in cultural heritage preservation. The number of available electron accelerators is two orders of magnitude greater than for gamma facilities, and many countries do not have gamma facilities.

In this work we demonstrate the possibility of using an electron accelerator and X-rays generated from accelerated electrons for radiation treatment of wooden cultural heritage. The GEANT4 toolkit was used for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter. The accuracy of radiation treatment numerical simulation in comparison with experiment was in range of 1.5–11.8%.

文化遗产的保护非常重要。电离辐射被广泛用于此目的，伽马辐射的使用已成为文化遗产保护的普遍做法。可用的电子加速器的数量比伽马设施大两个数量级，而且许多国家没有伽马设施。

在这项工作中，我们证明了使用电子加速器和由加速电子产生的X射线对木制文化遗产进行辐射处理的可能性。GEANT4工具包用于模拟粒子通过物质的通道。与实验相比，放射治疗数值模拟的准确性在1.5-11.8％之间。