• DocumentCode
    2715000
  • Title

    Cellular S-value and energy distribution for electrons by Monte Carlo simulation

  • Author

    Geng, Jinpeng ; Cao, Tianguang ; Li, Duofang ; Hu, Chunlei ; Chen, Yafei ; An, Hailong ; Zhan, Yong

  • Author_Institution
    Hebei Univ. of Technol., Tianjin, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    3-5 Nov. 2011
  • Firstpage
    244
  • Lastpage
    246
  • Abstract
    S-value and the single-event specific energy distribution for electrons are important quantities of the microdosimetry for understanding biological effects of ionizing radiation, both of which have close relation to other quantities of the microdosimetry. In this paper, these quantities of electrons were calculated by different codes from cell surface to nucleus or the whole cell. The properties of the low-energy electrons, such as δ particle equilibrium and the energy-loss straggling, were applied to Monte Carlo simulation codes including MOCA15, TRAX and Geant4, and these codes tracked the electrons until their energy was lower than our cutoff energy. The results of S-value and the single-event specific energy distribution in cell were compared to the results of the Penelope and MIRD.
  • Keywords
    Monte Carlo methods; biological effects of ionising particles; cellular effects of radiation; dosimetry; electrons; δ particle equilibrium; Geant4; MIRD; MOCA15; Monte Carlo simulation codes; Penelope; TRAX; cell surface; cellular S-value; energy loss straggling; ionizing radiation effect; low energy electrons; microdosimetry; nucleus; single event specific energy distribution; whole cell; Biological information theory; Biological systems; Educational institutions; Ionizing radiation; Monte Carlo methods;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Bioelectronics and Bioinformatics (ISBB), 2011 International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Suzhou
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0076-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISBB.2011.6107692
  • Filename
    6107692