The invariance of the total direct DNA strand break yield

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4147-4153

  Bernal, M A ^a,e   Dealmeida, C E ^a   Sampaio, C ^a   Incerti, S ^b   Champion, C ^c   Nieminen, P ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

DNA; geant4 dna; Monte Carlo simulation; nanodosimetry; strand break yields

Indexed keywords

ALPHA PARTICLES; BIOINFORMATICS; DEPOSITION; DNA; ENERGY TRANSFER; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROBABILITY;

GEANT4 DNAS; GEOMETRICAL MODELING; GEOMETRICAL PROPERTY; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; NANODOSIMETRY; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SINGLE-STRAND BREAKS; STRAND BREAKS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 79960217964     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3597568     Document Type: Article

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