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- Title
Impact of Radiation Quality on Microdosimetry and Chromosome Aberrations for High-Energy (>250 MeV/n) Ions.
- Authors
Poignant, Floriane; Plante, Ianik; Crespo, Luis; Slaba, Tony
- Abstract
Studying energy deposition by space radiation at the cellular scale provides insights on health risks to astronauts. Using the Monte Carlo track structure code RITRACKS, and the chromosome aberrations code RITCARD, we performed a modeling study of single-ion energy deposition spectra and chromosome aberrations for high-energy (>250 MeV/n) ion beams with linear energy transfer (LET) varying from 0.22 to 149.2 keV/µm. The calculations were performed using cells irradiated directly by mono-energetic ion beams, and by poly-energetic beams after particle transport in a digital mouse model, representing the radiation exposure of a cell in a tissue. To discriminate events from ion tracks directly traversing the nucleus, to events from δ-electrons emitted by distant ion tracks, we categorized ion contributions to microdosimetry or chromosome aberrations into direct and indirect contributions, respectively. The ions were either ions of the mono-energetic beam or secondary ions created in the digital mouse due to interaction of the beam with tissues. For microdosimetry, the indirect contribution is largely independent of the beam LET and minimally impacted by the beam interactions in mice. In contrast, the direct contribution is strongly dependent on the beam LET and shows increased probabilities of having low and high-energy deposition events when considering beam transport. Regarding chromosome aberrations, the indirect contribution induces a small number of simple exchanges, and a negligible number of complex exchanges. The direct contribution is responsible for most simple and complex exchanges. The complex exchanges are significantly increased for some low-LET ion beams when considering beam transport.
- Subjects
CHROMOSOME abnormalities; ION beams; LINEAR energy transfer; MICRODOSIMETRY; PARTICLE tracks (Nuclear physics); ASTROPHYSICAL radiation
- Publication
Life (2075-1729), 2022, Vol 12, Issue 3, p358
- ISSN
2075-1729
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/life12030358