Track structure, radiation quality and initial radiobiological events: Considerations based on the PARTRAC code experience

International Journal of Radiation Biology

Volumn 88, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 77-86

  Alloni, Daniele ^a,e   Campa, Alessandro ^b,c   Friedland, Werner ^d   Mariotti, Luca ^a,e   Ottolenghi, Andrea ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Initial events; Non DNA targets; Radiation quality; Track structure

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; GENOMIC DNA; HEAVY ION; HISTONE; PROTON; SPHINGOLIPID; WATER;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ALPHA RADIATION; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DIFFUSION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA HELIX; DNA STRUCTURE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ELECTRON; ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IONIZATION; IRRADIATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; LIPID RAFT; MITOCHONDRION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIATION; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; THEORY; TRACK STRUCTURE THEORY;

ALPHA PARTICLES; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA BREAKS, SINGLE-STRANDED; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; RADIOBIOLOGY;

EID: 84855376502     PISSN: 09553002     EISSN: 13623095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09553002.2011.627976     Document Type: Conference Paper

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