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 …

Advancements in secondary and backscattered electron energy spectra and yields analysis: From theory to applications

S Taioli, M Dapor - Surface Science Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, experimental microscopy and spectroscopy have made significant
progress in the study of the morphological, optical, electronic and transport properties of …

Mechanistic DNA damage simulations in Geant4-DNA Part 2: Electron and proton damage in a bacterial cell

N Lampe, M Karamitros, V Breton, JMC Brown… - Physica Medica, 2018 - Elsevier
We extended a generic Geant4 application for mechanistic DNA damage simulations to an
Escherichia coli cell geometry, finding electron damage yields and proton damage yields …

Effective attenuation lengths for different quantitative applications of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

A Jablonski, CJ Powell - Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The effective attenuation length (EAL) is a useful parameter in quantitative applications of x-
ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). This parameter is used in place of the inelastic mean …

Calculations of electron inelastic mean free paths. XIII. Data for 14 organic compounds and water over the 50 eV to 200 keV range with the relativistic full Penn …

H Shinotsuka, S Tanuma… - Surface and Interface …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We have calculated inelastic mean free paths (IMFPs) for 14 organic compounds (26‐n‐
paraffin, adenine, β‐carotene, diphenyl‐hexatriene, guanine, Kapton, polyacetylene, poly …

An implementation of discrete electron transport models for gold in the Geant4 simulation toolkit

D Sakata, S Incerti, MC Bordage, N Lampe… - Journal of Applied …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Gold nanoparticle (GNP) boosted radiation therapy can enhance the biological effectiveness
of radiation treatments by increasing the quantity of direct and indirect radiation-induced …

Monte Carlo electron track structure calculations in liquid water using a new model dielectric response function

D Emfietzoglou, G Papamichael… - Radiation …, 2017 - meridian.allenpress.com
Monte Carlo track structure codes provide valuable information for understanding radiation
effects down to the DNA level, where experimental measurements are most difficult or …

Modeling Time‐Resolved Kinetics in Solids Induced by Extreme Electronic Excitation

N Medvedev, F Akhmetov… - Advanced Theory …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The authors present a concurrent Monte Carlo (MC)–molecular dynamics (MD) approach to
modeling matter response to excitation of its electronic system at nanometric scales. The two …

Electron inelastic mean free paths in condensed matter down to a few electronvolts

P de Vera, R Garcia-Molina - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2019 - ACS Publications
A new method is reported for a simple, yet reliable, calculation of electron inelastic mean
free paths in insulating and conducting materials, from the very low energies of hot electrons …

Low-energy electron distributions from the photoionization of liquid water: a sensitive test of electron mean free paths

T Gadeyne, P Zhang, A Schild, HJ Wörner - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The availability of accurate mean free paths for slow electrons (< 50 eV) in water is central to
the understanding of many electron-driven processes in aqueous solutions, but their …