1. Simulating radial dose of ion tracks in liquid water simulated with Geant4-DNA: A comparative study
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Incerti, Sebastien, Psaltaki, Maria G., Gillet, Pierre, Barberet, Ph., Bardies, M., Bernal, Mario A., Bordage, Marie Claude, Breton, Vincent, Davídková, Marie, Delage, E., El Bitar, Ziad Ei, Francis, Ziad, Guatelli, Susanna, Ivanchenko, A., Ivanchenko, Vladimir, Karamitros, Mathieu, Lee, Sebyeong, Maigne, Lydia, Meylan, Sylvain, Murakami, Kouichi, Nieminen, Petteri H., Payno, H., Perrot, Yann, Petrović, Ivan M., Pham, Q. T., Ristić-Fira, Aleksandra, Santin, Giovanni, Sasaki, Takashi, Seznec, Herve, Shin, Jae-ik, Stepan, Vaclav, Tran, Ngoc Hoang, Villagrasa, Carmen, Geant4-DNA Collaboration, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Technical University of Athens [Athens] (NTUA), Institut Universitaire du Cancer de Toulouse - Oncopole (IUCT Oncopole - UMR 1037), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-CHU Toulouse [Toulouse]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Instituto de Fisica 'Gleb Wataghin' (INSTITUTO DE FISICA 'GLEB WATAGHIN'), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand (LPC), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Radiation Dosimetry, Nuclear Physics Institute of the AS CR, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth (USJ), Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong [Australia], Geant4 Associates International (G4AI), Ecoanalytica, Institut de Neurosciences cognitives et intégratives d'Aquitaine (INCIA), Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-SFR Bordeaux Neurosciences-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Proton Therapy Center, National Cancer Center Korea, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), KEK (High energy accelerator research organization), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), European Space Agency (ESA), Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade [Belgrade], Ton Duc Thang University [Hô-Chi-Minh-City], Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Universidade Estadual de Campinas = University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-SFR Bordeaux Neurosciences-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA)
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Work (thermodynamics) ,Radiation transport ,Physics::Medical Physics ,Reference data (financial markets) ,Monte Carlo method ,Ion ,Deposition (phase transition) ,Statistical physics ,Instrumentation ,Monte Carlo ,Physics ,Energy depositions ,[PHYS]Physics [physics] ,Geant4-DNA ,Ion track ,Geant4 dnas ,Monte Carlo methods ,Liquids ,DNA ,Analytical calculation ,Monte- carlo simulations ,Charged particle ,Computational physics ,Comparative studies ,Liquid water ,Dose ,Dynamic Monte Carlo method - Abstract
International audience; An accurate modeling of radial energy deposition around ion tracks is a key requirement of radiation transport software used for simulations in radiobiology at the sub-cellular scale. The work presented in this paper is part of the on-going benchmarking of the "Geant4-DNA" physics processes and models, which are available in the Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit for the low energy transport of particles in liquid water. We present for the first time radial dose distributions of incident ion tracks simulated with "Geant4-DNA". Simulation results are compared to other results available in the literature, obtained from analytical calculations, step-by-step Monte Carlo simulations and measurements. They show a reasonable agreement with reference data. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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