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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
Open University
Elastic and inelastic cross sections for low-energy electron collisions with pyrimidine
Understanding biomaterial interactions with ionising radiation is important in the study of its health effects and diagnostics. The prediction of energy deposition and damage in biomedical materials requires benchmarked calculations. This is one of only a few papers that compare experimental and theoretical cross sections for electron induced electronic excitation. These data are for pyrimidine, a generic model for the pyrimidinic DNA/RNA bases, and have subsequently been incorporated into LEPTS, a computational implementation of an accurate radiation-matter interaction model at the molecular level that can be interfaced to well-established particle-matter interaction software (e.g. Geant4).
