Table 1 Characteristics of the Hiroshima-neutron-induced secondary charged particle field.

From: Predicting DNA damage foci and their experimental readout with 2D microscopy: a unified approach applied to photon and neutron exposures

 

p

α

C

N

O

e−

Ds (%)

87.69 ± 0.30

0.94 ± 0.09

3.03 ± 0.07

0.38 ± 0.01

7.67 ± 0.17

0.13 ± 0.01

\({\bar{{\rm{y}}}}_{{\rm{D}},{\rm{s}}}\) (keV/μm)

45.08 ± 0.04

191.10 ± 1.96

374.90 ± 0.50

380.99 ± 4.52

349.89 ± 1.70

2.00 ± 0.01

  1. For each secondary charged species s, the relative dose contribution to the total neutron dose Ds (%) and the dose mean lineal energy \({\bar{{\rm{y}}}}_{{\rm{D}},{\rm{s}}}\) (keV/μm) in the biological samples calculated with PHITS. Errors are calculated as standard deviations among different simulation runs.
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