Radiation Physics: Advances in DNA and Cellular Technologies
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 1156
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Monte Carlo simulations; Geant4-DNA; GATE; radiation biology
Interests: Monte Carlo simulations; Geant4, track-structure simulations; Geant4-DNA; radiobiology; radiochemistry
Interests: radiation interactions; Monte Carlo radiation transport; microdosimetry; radiobiological modeling; radiation protection; Geant4; Geant4-DNA
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Interests: Geant4-DNA; Geant4; nuclear/radiation physics; radiation biology; radiation detection; dosimetry; medical physics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
DNA damage studies are of growing interdisciplinary interest, spanning fields such as radio-protection, radiotherapy, and space mission research.
These investigations rely on modeling radiation interactions with matter at the nanoscale, incorporating not only the underlying physics but also the resulting chemical reactions and biological repair mechanisms.
To explore this complex research area, significant computational advancements have been made over the past decades, leading to the development of track-structure Monte Carlo tools capable of simulating various aspects of this intricate process. Notable examples include Geant4-DNA, GATE, PARTRAC, RITRACKS, TOPAS, TRAX-CHEM, CHEM-KURBUC, and IONLYS-IRT.
This Special Issue aims to gather articles on recent progress in DNA damage modeling across diverse fields of applications, including radiobiology, radiochemistry, medicine, and space radiation research, with a focus on improving our understanding of DNA damage and its biological consequences.
Dr. Konstantinos Chatzipapas
Dr. Serena Fattori
Dr. Ioanna Kyriakou
Dr. Dousatsu Sakata
Dr. Milos Dordevic
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- radiation transport
- Monte Carlo simulations
- DNA damage
- Monte Carlo simulation
- radiation interaction
- track structure modeling
- radioprotection
- radiotherapy
- space radiation
- chemical reactions
- biological repair mechanisms
- radiobiology
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