Assistant Professor in Residence
Department of Radiation Oncology
Head Research Lab
Publications
Evaluation of nanodosimetric quantities for ion radiotherapy treatment planning based on the degree of association of survival with cluster dose.
Physics in medicine and biology
TOPAS-nBio-Reg: a regression testing system for track structure simulations in TOPAS-nBio.
Physics in medicine and biology
Physical contributors to dose in patients with dual port temporary tissue expanders treated post-mastectomy with 10 MV X-rays: A Monte Carlo study.
Biomedical physics & engineering express
Results of a Geant4 benchmarking study for bio-medical applications, performed with the G4-Med system.
Medical physics
Effect of FLASH dose-rate and oxygen concentration in the production of H2O2in cellular-like media versus water: a Monte Carlo track-structure study.
Physics in medicine and biology
Investigation of hydrogen peroxide yields and oxygen consumption in high dose rate irradiation: a TOPAS-nBio Monte Carlo study.
Physics in medicine and biology
Tumor growth and vascular redistribution contributes to the dosimetric preferential effect of microbeam radiotherapy: a Monte Carlo study.
Scientific reports
Modeling the oxygen effect in DNA strand break induced by gamma-rays with TOPAS-nBio.
Physics in medicine and biology
A clustering tool for generating biological geometries for computational modeling in radiobiology.
Physics in medicine and biology
TOPAS-Tissue: A Framework for the Simulation of the Biological Response to Ionizing Radiation at the Multi-Cellular Level.
International journal of molecular sciences
An interface tool to parametrize treatment plans for the TrueBeam radiotherapy system into TOPAS parameter control files for Monte Carlo simulation.
Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
Lithium inelastic cross-sections and their impact on micro and nano dosimetry of boron neutron capture.
Physics in medicine and biology
Review of chemical models and applications in Geant4-DNA: Report from the ESA BioRad III Project.
Medical physics
Corrigendum to "Prediction of DNA rejoining kinetics and cell survival after proton irradiation for V79 cells using Geant4-DNA" [Phys. Med. 105 (2023) 102508].
Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
TOPAS simulation of photoneutrons in radiotherapy: accuracy and speed with variance reduction.
Physics in medicine and biology
A digital male pelvis phantom series showing anatomical variations over the course of fractionated radiotherapy treatment.
Medical physics
Cellular lethal damage of 64Cu incorporated in mammalian genome evaluated with Monte Carlo methods.
Frontiers in medicine
Ionization detail parameters and cluster dose: a mathematical model for selection of nanodosimetric quantities for use in treatment planning in charged particle radiotherapy.
Physics in medicine and biology
GEANT4-DNA simulation of temperature-dependent and pH-dependent yields of chemical radiolytic species.
Physics in medicine and biology
An integrated Monte Carlo track-structure simulation framework for modeling inter and intra-track effects on homogenous chemistry.
Physics in medicine and biology
Dosimetric characterization of single- and dual-port temporary tissue expanders for postmastectomy radiotherapy using Monte Carlo methods.
Frontiers in oncology
Microdosimetric Analysis for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy via Monte Carlo Track Structure Simulation with Modified Lithium Cross-sections.
Radiation physics and chemistry (Oxford, England : 1993)
TOPAS-imaging: extensions to the TOPAS simulation toolkit for medical imaging systems.
Physics in medicine and biology
Prediction of DNA rejoining kinetics and cell survival after proton irradiation for V79 cells using Geant4-DNA.
Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
Impact of DNA Geometry and Scoring on Monte Carlo Track-Structure Simulations of Initial Radiation-Induced Damage.
Radiation research
TOPAS-nBio simulation of temperature-dependent indirect DNA strand break yields.
Physics in medicine and biology
DNA damage modeled with Geant4-DNA: effects of plasmid DNA conformation and experimental conditions.
Physics in medicine and biology
TOPAS-nBio validation for simulating water radiolysis and DNA damage under low-LET irradiation.
Physics in medicine and biology
The relation between microdosimetry and induction of direct damage to DNA by alpha particles.
Physics in medicine and biology
Geant4-DNA simulation of the pre-chemical stage of water radiolysis and its impact on initial radiochemical yields.
Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
Development of Ultra-High Dose-Rate (FLASH) Particle Therapy.
IEEE transactions on radiation and plasma medical sciences
Publisher's Note: "Dispersion calibration for the National Ignition Facility electron-positron-proton spectrometers for intense laser matter interactions" [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 92, 033516 (2021)].
The Review of scientific instruments
Boronated Condensed DNA as a Heterochromatic Radiation Target Model.
Biomacromolecules
Dispersion calibration for the National Ignition Facility electron-positron-proton spectrometers for intense laser matter interactions.
The Review of scientific instruments
Report on G4-Med, a Geant4 benchmarking system for medical physics applications developed by the Geant4 Medical Simulation Benchmarking Group.
Medical physics
LET-Dependent Intertrack Yields in Proton Irradiation at Ultra-High Dose Rates Relevant for FLASH Therapy.
Radiation research
Monte Carlo track-structure for the radionuclide Copper-64: characterization of S-values, nanodosimetry and quantification of direct damage to DNA.
Physics in medicine and biology
Cellular Response to Proton Irradiation: A Simulation Study with TOPAS-nBio.
Radiation research
Report on G4‐Med, a Geant4 benchmarking system for medical physics applications developed by the Geant4 Medical Simulation Benchmarking Group
Medical physics
A parameter sensitivity study for simulating DNA damage after proton irradiation using TOPAS-nBio.
Physics in medicine and biology
The TOPAS tool for particle simulation, a Monte Carlo simulation tool for physics, biology and clinical research.
Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
DNA Condensation with a Boron-Containing Cationic Peptide for Modeling Boron Neutron Capture Therapy.
Radiation physics and chemistry (Oxford, England : 1993)
Evaluation of the influence of physical and chemical parameters on water radiolysis simulations under MeV electron irradiation using Geant4-DNA
Journal of Applied Physics
Radio-enhancement by gold nanoparticles and their impact on water radiolysis for x-ray, proton and carbon-ion beams.
Physics in medicine and biology
Monte Carlo geometry modeling for particle transport using conformal geometric algebra
Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras
Simultaneous optimization of RBE-weighted dose and nanometric ionization distributions in treatment planning with carbon ions.
Physics in medicine and biology
TOPAS-nBio: An Extension to the TOPAS Simulation Toolkit for Cellular and Sub-cellular Radiobiology.
Radiation research
Fast calculation of nanodosimetric quantities in treatment planning of proton and ion therapy.
Physics in medicine and biology
A New Standard DNA Damage (SDD) Data Format.
Radiation research
Geometrical structures for radiation biology research as implemented in the TOPAS-nBio toolkit.
Physics in medicine and biology
Helium CT: Monte Carlo simulation results for an ideal source and detector with comparison to proton CT.
Medical physics
Monte Carlo simulation of chemistry following radiolysis with TOPAS-nBio.
Physics in medicine and biology
Flagged uniform particle splitting for variance reduction in proton and carbon ion track-structure simulations.
Physics in medicine and biology
Validation of the radiobiology toolkit TOPAS-nBio in simple DNA geometries.
Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
Dose assessment for the fetus considering scattered and secondary radiation from photon and proton therapy when treating a brain tumor of the mother.
Physics in medicine and biology
Experimental depth dose curves of a 67.5 MeV proton beam for benchmarking and validation of Monte Carlo simulation.
Medical physics
A framework for implementation of organ effect models in TOPAS with benchmarks extended to proton therapy.
Physics in medicine and biology
Extension of TOPAS for the simulation of proton radiation effects considering molecular and cellular endpoints.
Physics in medicine and biology
Improved efficiency in Monte Carlo simulation for passive-scattering proton therapy
Improved efficiency in Monte Carlo simulation for passive-scattering proton therapy