The Geant4-DNA project

The Geant4 general purpose particle-matter Monte Carlo simulation toolkit is being extended with processes for the modeling of early biological damage induced by ionising radiation at the DNA scale. Such developments are on-going in the framework of the Geant4-DNA project, originally initiated by the European Space Agency/ESTEC. They are fully included in Geant4.

Microbeam irradiation of a keratinocyte (HaCaT) with alpha particles (see the « microbeam » Geant4 advanced example) - courtesy of L. Garnier (CNRS) -