Andrew Chacon
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Recent Articles
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Arce P, Archer J, Arsini L, Bagulya A, Bolst D, Brown J, et al.
Med Phys
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39981742
Background: Geant4, a Monte Carlo Simulation Toolkit extensively used in bio-medical physics, is in continuous evolution to include newest research findings to improve its accuracy and to respond to the...
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Kielly M, Chacon A, Caracciolo A, Bolst D, Rosenfeld A, Carminati M, et al.
Phys Med
. 2024 Dec;
129():104866.
PMID: 39671906
Purpose: To evaluate the impact of a range of shielding strategies on the rate of false positive detections by a simulated detector for application in Neutron Capture Enhanced Particle Therapy...
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Sato Y, Sakata D, Bolst D, Simpson E, Chacon A, Safavi-Naeini M, et al.
Phys Med
. 2024 Nov;
128:104850.
PMID: 39608277
Purpose: This study aims to validate the Light-Ion Quantum Molecular Dynamics (LIQMD) model, an advanced version of the QMD model for more accurate simulations in hadron therapy, incorporated into Geant4...
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Chacon A, Rutherford H, Hamato A, Nitta M, Nishikido F, Iwao Y, et al.
Phys Med Biol
. 2024 May;
69(12).
PMID: 38776943
To compare the accuracy with which different hadronic inelastic physics models across ten Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit versions can predict positron-emitting fragments produced along the beam path during carbon...
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Howell N, Middleton R, Sierro F, Fraser B, Wyatt N, Chacon A, et al.
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys
. 2024 Mar;
120(1):229-242.
PMID: 38479560
Purpose: Neutron capture enhanced particle therapy (NCEPT) is a proposed augmentation of charged particle therapy that exploits thermal neutrons generated internally, within the treatment volume via nuclear fragmentation, to deliver...
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Kielly M, Caracciolo A, Chacon A, Vohradsky J, Di Vita D, Hamato A, et al.
Sci Rep
. 2024 Jan;
14(1):2601.
PMID: 38297114
This work provides the first experimental proof of an increased neutron capture photon signal following the introduction of boron to a PMMA phantom during helium and carbon ion therapies in...
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Jakubowski K, Chacon A, Tran L, Stopic A, Garbe U, Bevitt J, et al.
Sci Rep
. 2023 Oct;
13(1):17415.
PMID: 37833371
In this study, we present a validated Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation model of the Dingo thermal neutron imaging beamline at the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering. The model, constructed using...
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Rutherford H, Saha Turai R, Chacon A, Franklin D, Mohammadi A, Tashima H, et al.
Phys Med Biol
. 2022 Aug;
67(19).
PMID: 35947996
. We aim to evaluate a method for estimating 1D physical dose deposition profiles in carbon ion therapy via analysis of dynamic PET images using a deep residual learning convolutional...
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Chacon A, Kielly M, Rutherford H, Franklin D, Caracciolo A, Buonanno L, et al.
Sci Rep
. 2022 Apr;
12(1):5863.
PMID: 35393505
Neutron Capture Enhanced Particle Therapy (NCEPT) boosts the effectiveness of particle therapy by capturing thermal neutrons produced by beam-target nuclear interactions in and around the treatment site, using tumour-specific [Formula:...
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Mohammadi A, Tashima H, Iwao Y, Takyu S, Akamatsu G, Kang H, et al.
Phys Med Biol
. 2022 Feb;
65(22).
PMID: 35125349
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