1. Reliability and Comparison of Some GEANT4-DNA Processes and Models for Proton Transportation: An Ultra-Thin Layer Study
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L. I. Gutierres, Elaine Evaní Streck, Viviana Fanti, Ricardo Meurer Papaléo, R.S. Thomaz, Sven Muller, and Gabriela Hoff
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03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Materials science ,Proton ,business.industry ,0103 physical sciences ,Thin layer ,Optoelectronics ,010306 general physics ,business ,01 natural sciences ,Reliability (statistics) ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging - Abstract
This chapter presents a specific reliability study of some GEANT4-DNA (version 10.02.p01) processes and models for proton transportation considering ultra-thin layers (UTL). The Monte Carlo radiation transport validation is fundamental to guarantee the simulation results accuracy. However, sometimes this is impossible due to the lack of experimental data and, it is then that the reliability evaluation takes an important role. Geant4-DNA runs in an energy range that makes impossible, nowadays, to perform a proper microscopic validation (cross-sections and dynamic diffusion parameters) and allows very limited macroscopic reliability. The chemical damage cross-sections reliability (experiment versus simulation) is a way to verify the consistency of the simulation results which is presented for 2 MeV incident protons beam on PMMA and PVC UTL. A comparison among different Geant4-DNA physics lists for incident protons beams from 2 to 20 MeV, interacting with homogeneous water UTL (2 to 200 nm) was performed. This comparison was evaluated for standard and five other optional physics lists considering radial and depth profiles of deposited energy as well as number of interactions and stopping power of the incident particle.
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- 2022
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