Conveners
Nanoscale radiation damage to DNA: theoretical perspectives
- Jorge Kohanoff (Instituto de Fusión Nuclear, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
The interaction of swift charged particles (either ion beams or energetic electrons) with condensed-phase materials underlies many biomedical applications of radiation. Energetic proton or carbon ion beams are used in the advanced radiotherapy technique of hadrontherapy, and their nanometric track-structure is defined by the ejection and propagation of secondary electrons [1]. Energetic...
Proton irradiation of DNA is of utmost importance for many fields, from understanding radiation damage in space and Earth to medical applications for cancer treatment. Computer simulations are highly valuable tools for understanding such process, and among these, ab initio simulations employing Real Time - Time Dependent Density Functional Theory (RT-TDDFT) allow to obtain an extremely...