Presentation title: Monte Carlo simulation of early biological damage
induced by ionizing radiation at the DNA scale: overview of the Geant4 - DNA project
Injury or Disease directly or indirectly caused by or
contributed by ionizing radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste from burning nuclear fuel.
Hypoxia, very low levels of oxygen in glioma, plays a crucial role in resistance to radiotherapy because oxygen must be present for optimal fixation of DNA damage
induced by ionizing radiation.
Teeth and nails are good for measuring radiation because they pick up free radicals (atoms, or ions, with unpaired electrons)
created by ionizing radiation and can retain them for long periods of time, says Harold Swartz, a Dartmouth Medical School professor of radiation oncology and director of the Dartmouth Biodosimetry Center for Medical Countermeasures against Radiation.
The generated ROS plays an important role in the biological effects induced
by ionizing radiation.
CCD detectors are particularly vulnerable to damage
by ionizing radiation.