TOPAS-nBio: an extension to the TOPAS simulation toolkit for cellular and sub-cellular radiobiology

J Schuemann, AL McNamara… - Radiation …, 2019 - meridian.allenpress.com
The TOPAS Monte Carlo (MC) system is used in radiation therapy and medical imaging
research, having played a significant role in making Monte Carlo simulations widely …

The TOPAS tool for particle simulation, a Monte Carlo simulation tool for physics, biology and clinical research

B Faddegon, J Ramos-Méndez, J Schuemann… - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose This paper covers recent developments and applications of the TOPAS TOol for
PArticle Simulation and presents the approaches used to disseminate TOPAS. Materials and …

Monte Carlo simulation of chemistry following radiolysis with TOPAS-nBio

J Ramos-Méndez, J Perl, J Schuemann… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Simulation of water radiolysis and the subsequent chemistry provides important information
on the effect of ionizing radiation on biological material. The Geant4 Monte Carlo toolkit has …

Cellular response to proton irradiation: a simulation study with TOPAS-nBio

H Zhu, AL McNamara, SJ McMahon… - Radiation …, 2020 - meridian.allenpress.com
The cellular response to ionizing radiation continues to be of significant research interest in
cancer radiotherapy, and DNA is recognized as the critical target for most of the biologic …

Validation of the radiobiology toolkit TOPAS-nBio in simple DNA geometries

A McNamara, C Geng, R Turner, JR Mendez, J Perl… - Physica Medica, 2017 - Elsevier
Computational simulations offer a powerful tool for quantitatively investigating radiation
interactions with biological tissue and can help bridge the gap between physics, chemistry …

Geometrical structures for radiation biology research as implemented in the TOPAS-nBio toolkit

AL McNamara, J Ramos-Méndez, J Perl… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Computational simulations, such as Monte Carlo track structure simulations, offer a powerful
tool for quantitatively investigating radiation interactions within cells. The modelling of the …

Independent reaction times method in Geant4‐DNA: Implementation and performance

J Ramos‐Méndez, W Shin, M Karamitros… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The simulation of individual particle tracks and the chemical stage following water
radiolysis in biological tissue is an effective means of improving our knowledge of the …

[HTML][HTML] Review of the Geant4-DNA simulation toolkit for radiobiological applications at the cellular and DNA level

I Kyriakou, D Sakata, HN Tran, Y Perrot, WG Shin… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary A brief description of the methodologies to simulate ionizing radiation
transport in biologically relevant matter is presented. Emphasis is given to the physical …

[HTML][HTML] Fully integrated Monte Carlo simulation for evaluating radiation induced DNA damage and subsequent repair using Geant4-DNA

D Sakata, O Belov, MC Bordage, D Emfietzoglou… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Ionising radiation induced DNA damage and subsequent biological responses to it depend
on the radiation's track-structure and its energy loss distribution pattern. To investigate the …

A new standard DNA damage (SDD) data format

J Schuemann, AL McNamara… - Radiation …, 2019 - meridian.allenpress.com
Our understanding of radiation-induced cellular damage has greatly improved over the past
few decades. Despite this progress, there are still many obstacles to fully understand how …