Related papers: Calculation of complex DNA damage induced by ions
We present the latest advances of the multiscale approach to radiation damage caused by irradiation of a tissue with energetic ions and report the most recent advances in the calculations of complex DNA damage and the effects of thermal…
We propose a multi-scale approach to understand the physics related to ion-beam cancer therapy. It allows the calculation of the probability of DNA damage as a result of irradiation of tissues with energetic ions, up to 430 MeV/u. This…
We propose a multi-scale approach to understanding physics related to the ion/proton-beam cancer therapy and calculation of the probability of the DNA damage as a result of irradiation of patients with energetic (up to 430 MeV/u) ions. This…
In our last paper, we have reported the direct interact between energetic ions and DNA, and its components, pointing out that damage to DNA is actually of highest biological consequence, as the integrity of DNA sequence is essential for…
Ion beams have been widely applied in a few biological research fields such as radioactive breeding, health protection, and tumor therapy. Up to now many interesting and impressive achievements in biology and agriculture have been made.…
It has been reported that damage of genome in a living cell by ionizing radiation is about one-third direct and two-thirds indirect. The former which has been introduced in our last paper, concerns direct energy deposition and ionizing…
In previous work, we constructed a statistical framework for estimating the rate of clustered ionization from charged particle radiation in DNA. This model is extended to include contributions from secondary electrons. Using a simple…
This paper describes the model for DNA in MATLAB taking into account all of component atoms. In this model, it is possible to generate sequences with length 10000 basis pairs available for introducing all types of sequences. Once the…
The multiscale approach to the assessment of biodamage resulting upon irradiation of biological media with ions is reviewed, explained and compared to other approaches. The processes of ion propagation in the medium concurrent with…
Although DNA damage is widely viewed as a critical target for the induction of cell killing by ionizing radiation, the exact nature of DNA damage responsible for these effects is unknown. To address this issue, the probability of forming…
We propose an inclusive approach for calculating characteristics of secondary electrons produced by ions/protons in tissue-like media. This approach is based on an analysis of the projectile's interaction with the medium on the microscopic…
We present a multi-scale simulation of early stage of DNA damages by the indirect action of hydroxyl ($^\bullet$OH) free radicals generated by electrons and protons. The computational method comprises of interfacing the Geant4-DNA Monte…
Radiation damage induced by ion beams is traditionally treated at different levels of theoretical approaches, for the different scales and mechanisms involved.We present here details of a combined approach that, from a method at a…
Energetic ions lose their energy in tissue mainly by ionising its molecules. This produces secondary electrons which transport this energy radially away from the ion path. The ranges of most of these electrons do not exceed a few…
Published survival data for V79 cells irradiated by monoenergetic protons, helium-3, carbon, and oxygen ions and for CHO cells irradiated by carbon ions have been analyzed using the probabilistic two-stage model of cell inactivation. Three…
Radiation damage is an unavoidable process when performing structural investigations of biological macromolecules with X-ray sources. In crystallography this process can be limited through damage distribution in a crystal, while for single…
The elucidation of fundamental mechanisms underlying ion-induced radiation damage of biological systems is crucial for the advancement of radiotherapy with ion beams and for radiation protection in space. The study of ion-induced biodamage…
According to the experimental evidence damage induced by densely ionizing radiation in mammalian cells is distributed along the DNA molecule in the form of clusters. The most critical constituent of DNA damage are double-strand breaks…
The radiation-induced damages in bio-molecules are ubiquitous processes in radiotherapy, radio-biology and critical to space-projects. In this study we present a precise quantification of the fragmentation mechanisms of deoxyribonucleic…
Numerical simulations are performed on a stochastic model based on Monte Carlo damage simulation process and Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques to investigate the formation and evaluation of isolated and multiple DNA damage and cellular…