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Baiocco, G.* ; Barbieri, S.* ; Babini, G.* ; Morini, J.* ; Alloni, D.* ; Friedland, W. ; Kundrát, P. ; Schmitt, E. ; Puchalska, M.* ; Sihver, L.* ; Ottolenghi, A.*

The origin of neutron biological effectiveness as a function of energy.

Sci. Rep. 6:34033 (2016)
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The understanding of the impact of radiation quality in early and late responses of biological targets to ionizing radiation exposure necessarily grounds on the results of mechanistic studies starting from physical interactions. This is particularly true when, already at the physical stage, the radiation field is mixed, as it is the case for neutron exposure. Neutron Relative Biological Effectiveness (RBE) is energy dependent, maximal for energies ~1 MeV, varying significantly among different experiments. The aim of this work is to shed light on neutron biological effectiveness as a function of field characteristics, with a comprehensive modeling approach: this brings together transport calculations of neutrons through matter (with the code PHITS) and the predictive power of the biophysical track structure code PARTRAC in terms of DNA damage evaluation. Two different energy dependent neutron RBE models are proposed: the first is phenomenological and based only on the characterization of linear energy transfer on a microscopic scale; the second is purely ab-initio and based on the induction of complex DNA damage. Results for the two models are compared and found in good qualitative agreement with current standards for radiation protection factors, which are agreed upon on the basis of RBE data.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Schlagwörter Microdosimetric Kinetic-model; Radiation Quality; Track Structure; Dna-damage; Rbe; Therapy; Particle; Phits; Simulation; Spectra
Sprache deutsch
Veröffentlichungsjahr 2016
HGF-Berichtsjahr 2016
ISSN (print) / ISBN 2045-2322
e-ISSN 2045-2322
Zeitschrift Scientific Reports
Quellenangaben Band: 6, Heft: , Seiten: , Artikelnummer: 34033 Supplement: ,
Verlag Nature Publishing Group
Verlagsort London
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
POF Topic(s) 30504 - Mechanisms of Genetic and Environmental Influences on Health and Disease
Forschungsfeld(er) Radiation Sciences
PSP-Element(e) G-501100-004
PubMed ID 27654349
Scopus ID 84988614400
Erfassungsdatum 2016-10-07