Track structures, DNA targets and radiation effects in the biophysical Monte Carlo simulation code PARTRAC

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 711, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 28-40

  Friedland, Werner ^a   Dingfelder, Michael ^b   Kundrát, Pavel ^a   Jacob, Peter ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA damage; DNA repair; Modelling; Multi scale; Track structure

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ALPHA RADIATION; CALCULATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRUCTURE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ELECTRON; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BREAK;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION, IONIZING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79956189193     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: 09218262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2011.01.003     Document Type: Review

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