Conveners
New developments in the modelling of radiation propagation and effects
- Michael Dingfelder (East Carolina University, Greenville, USA)
The effective use of swift ion beams in cancer treatment (known as hadrontherapy) as well as an appropriate protection in manned space missions rely on the accurate understanding of energy delivery to cells damaging their genetic information [1]. The key ingredient characterizing the response of a medium to the perturbation induced by charged particles is its electronic excitation spectrum. By...
Monte Carlo Simulations of electrons in condensed matter require the knowledge of cross section data [1]. We present a simple procedure, which allows to generate a consistent set of cross sections for Monte Carlo simulations from parameters, which can be obtained from Quantum Chemistry calculations with standard software as for example the program package Gaussian.
We show how the cross...
In radiotherapy treatments, the Radiobiological Effectiveness of Radiation (RBE) is customary assumed to be proportional to the absorbed dose. We have shown in a recent publication [1], that induced damage at the molecular level in water, in terms of induced molecular dissociations, by a 6MV X-ray beam generated by a clinical LINAC accelerator, is always proportional to the induced ionisation...