Track structure modeling in liquid water: A review of the Geant4-DNA very low energy extension of the Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit

MA Bernal, MC Bordage, JMC Brown, M Davídková… - Physica Medica, 2015 - Elsevier
Understanding the fundamental mechanisms involved in the induction of biological damage
by ionizing radiation remains a major challenge of today's radiobiology research. The Monte …

Radiation track, DNA damage and response—a review

H Nikjoo, D Emfietzoglou, T Liamsuwan… - Reports on Progress …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The purpose of this paper has been to review the current status and progress of the field of
radiation biophysics, and draw attention to the fact that physics, in general, and radiation …

Geant4‐DNA example applications for track structure simulations in liquid water: a report from the Geant4‐DNA Project

S Incerti, I Kyriakou, MA Bernal, MC Bordage… - Medical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This Special Report presents a description of Geant4‐DNA user applications dedicated to
the simulation of track structures (TS) in liquid water and associated physical quantities (eg …

Review of the Geant4-DNA simulation toolkit for radiobiological applications at the cellular and DNA level

I Kyriakou, D Sakata, HN Tran, Y Perrot, WG Shin… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary A brief description of the methodologies to simulate ionizing radiation
transport in biologically relevant matter is presented. Emphasis is given to the physical …

Precursors of solvated electrons in radiobiological physics and chemistry

E Alizadeh, L Sanche - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION When a high-energy charged particle interacts with a biomolecule in
living tissues or cells, about 80% of the energy absorbed ionizes the medium, whereas the …

Improvements in geant4 energy‐loss model and the effect on low‐energy electron transport in liquid water

I Kyriakou, S Incerti, Z Francis - Medical physics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The geant4‐DNA physics models are upgraded by a more accurate set of electron
cross sections for ionization and excitation in liquid water. The impact of the new …

Calculations of electron inelastic mean free paths. XI. Data for liquid water for energies from 50 eV to 30 keV

H Shinotsuka, B Da, S Tanuma… - Surface and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We calculated electron inelastic mean free paths (IMFPs) for liquid water from its optical
energy‐loss function (ELF) for electron energies from 50 eV to 30 keV. These calculations …

Effective attenuation length of an electron in liquid water between 10 and 600 eV

YI Suzuki, K Nishizawa, N Kurahashi, T Suzuki - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
The absolute values of the effective attenuation length of an electron in liquid water are
determined using soft x-ray O 1 s photoemission spectroscopy of a liquid beam of water …

The impact of new Geant4-DNA cross section models on electron track structure simulations in liquid water

I Kyriakou, M Šefl, V Nourry, S Incerti - Journal of Applied Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The most recent release of the open source and general purpose Geant4 Monte Carlo
simulation toolkit (Geant4 10.2 release) contains a new set of physics models in the Geant4 …

Nanoscale radiation transport and clinical beam modeling for gold nanoparticle dose enhanced radiotherapy (GNPT) using X-rays

P Zygmanski, E Sajo - The British journal of radiology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We review radiation transport and clinical beam modelling for gold nanoparticle dose-
enhanced radiotherapy using X-rays. We focus on the nanoscale radiation transport and its …