Physico-Chemical Events

Ashburn, John ^*,1, Cui, Nuan¹, Fettinger, Michael¹, Mohiuddin, Mohammed¹, Ahmed, Mansoor¹, ¹ Radiation Medicine and Radiation Biology Department, Lexington, KY, USA
(PP001) Comparative response of cancer cells to pulsed magnetic fields in the .1 - 5 tesla range.

Balagurumoorthy, Pichumani^*,1, Chen, Kai¹, Bash, Ralph², Adelstein, S. James¹, Kassis, Amin¹, ¹ Department of Radiology, Boston, MA, USA² The Biodesign Institute, Tempe, AZ, USA
(PP002) Linear DNA has greater susceptibility than supercoiled DNA to double-strand breaks caused by Auger electrons.

Balagurumoorthy, Pichumani^*,1, Chen, Kai¹, Adelstein, S. James¹, Kassis, Amin¹, ¹ Department of Radiology, Boston, MA, USA
(PP003) DNA strand breaks in supercoiled DNA after decay of ¹²³I-labeled Hoechst 33342.

Balagurumoorthy, Pichumani^*,1, Chen, Kai¹, Bash, Ralph², Adelstein, S. James¹, Kassis, Amin¹, ¹ Department of Radiology, Boston, MA, USA² The Biodesign Institute, Tempe, AZ, USA
(PP004) Insight into the mechanisms leading to the production of double-strand breaks in supercoiled DNA by ¹²⁵I-Hoechst.

Rayadurgam, Sripriya ¹, Liu, Haifeng ¹, Wang, Xudong ¹, Xia, Zhenghua¹, Braby, Leslie^*,1, ¹ Nuclear Engineering, College Station, Texas, USA
(PP005) Microdosimetry for two site sizes.

Cai, Zhongli^*,1, Cloutier, Pierre ¹, Hunting , Darel ¹, Sanche, Leon ¹, ¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
(PP006) DNA damage induced by low energy electrons and soft X-rays in air as a function of DNA hydration levels.

Cardenas-Navia, Laura^*,1, Dewhirst, Mark², ¹ Biomedical Engineering, Durham, NC, USA² Radiation Oncology, Durham, NC, USA
(PP007) Fluctuating oxygen in tumors alters tirapazamine pharmacodynamics.

Dingfelder, Michael^*,1, Jorjishvili, Irakli¹, Gersh, Jacob¹, Toburen, Larry¹, ¹ Department of Physics, Greenville, NC, USA
(PP008) Track structure simulations of relativistic heavy charged particles.

Gersh, Jacob^*,1, Dingfelder, Michael¹, Toburen, Larry¹, ¹ Department of Physics, Greenville, NC, USA
(PP009) Interface-induced dose perturbation in trabecular bone - a Monte Carlo approach.

Grygoryev, Dmytro^*,1, Zimbrick, John¹, ¹ Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, USA
(PP010) Release of unaltered bases in irradiated aqueous solutions of purines and pyrimidines.

Hada, Megumi^{*,1, 2}, Sutherland, Betsy³, ¹ Division of Space Life Science, Houston, TX, USA² Radiation Biology, Houston, TX, USA³ Biology Department, Upton, NY, USA
(PP011) Clustered DNA damages induced by high LET ionizing radiation in T7 DNA.

Hill, Mark^*,1, Goodhead, Dudley¹, ¹ Radiation & Genome Stability Unit, Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK
(PP012) Do low energy electrons produce lesions characteristic of high-LET or low-LET radiation?

Hiz, Zekiye^*,,
(PP013) Radiation reveals the biological structure-function relationships.

Kan, Chu-Cheng^*,1, Koon, Shirley¹, Shah, Shetal¹, Sood, Brij ¹, Li, Gloria², Nori, Dattatreyudu¹, ¹ Radiation Oncology/Randazzo Cell Biology Laboratory, Flushing, NY, USA² Medical Physics/hyperthermia and radiation biology laboratory, New York, NY
(PP014) The effect of statins on LNCaP prostate cancer cells and U87MG glioblastoma cells.

Meade, Aidan^{*,1, 3}, Byrne, Hugh², Lyng, Fiona^{2, 3}, ¹ School of Physics, Dublin, Dublin 8, Ireland³ Radiation and Environmental Science Centre (RESC), Dublin, Dublin 8, Ireland² FOCAS Institute, Dublin, Dublin 8, Ireland
(PP015) Vibrational spectroscopy and radiobiological assays of HaCaT keratinocytes post exposure to ionising radiation.

Ly, Anne¹, Tran, Nancy¹, Milligan, Jamie^*,1, ¹ Department of Radiology, La Jolla, CA
(PP016) Mechanism of guanine oxidation by the methylperoxyl radical.

Emfietzoglou, Dimitris , Cucinotta, Francis, Nikjoo, Hooshang^*,,
(PP017) A complete dielectric response model for liquid water: a solution of the Bethe Ridge problem.

Uehara, Shuzo¹, Nikjoo, Hooshang^*,2, ¹ School of Health Sciences, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan² Center for Advanced Space Studies, USRA, Houston, Texas, USA
(PP018) Monte Carlo simulation of water radiolysis for low-energy charged particles.

Pasciak, Alexander¹, ¹ Department of Nuclear Engineering, College Station, TX
(PP019) Ultra-high speed Monte Carlo computing using field programmable gate arrays.

Purkayastha, Shubhadeep^*,1, Milligan, Jamie², Bernhard, William¹, ¹ Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Rochester, New York, United States² Department of Radiology, La Jolla, California, United States
(PP020) The effects of hydration on strand break formation due to direct ionization of plasmid DNA.

Richardson, Rachel^*,1, Gamcsik, Michael², Biaglow, John³, Dewhirst, Mark, ¹ Radiation Oncology, Durham, NC, USA² Medicine, Durham, NC, USA³ Radiation Oncology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
(PP021) Lactate consumption by the rat R3230 mammary adenocarcinoma.

Roginskaya, Marina^*,1, Razskazovskiy, Yuriy², Bernhard, William¹, ¹ Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Rochester, NY, USA² Department of Physics, Johnson City, TN, USA
(PP022) 2'-Deoxyribonolactones are major lesions in DNA exposed to the direct effect of ionizing radiation.

Pan, Xiaoning¹, Sanche, Léon^*,1, ¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
(PP023) Direct damage to DNA by low-energy electrons.

Schulte, Reinhard^*,1, Bashkirov, Vladimir¹, Schulte, Birgit¹, Milligan, Jamie², ¹ Radiation Medicine, Loma Linda, CA, USA² Radiology, La Jolla, CA, USA
(PP024) Complex lesion yields in plasmid DNA produced by protons in the therapeutic energy range.

Sellami, Lamia^*,1, Deng, Zongwu¹, Huels, Michael¹, ¹ Dept. of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, Faculty of Medicine, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
(PP025) Radiation damage to DNA components induced by hyperthermal heavy ions.

Adhikary, Amitava^*,1, Pazdro, Robert ¹, Malkhasian, Aramice ^{1, 2}, Collins, Sean¹, Becker , David ^*,1, Sevilla, Michael^*,1, ¹ Department of Chemistry, Rochester, Mi, USA² Department of Chemistry, East Lansing, Mi, USA
(PP026) Photo-excitation of guanine radical cation in the near UV-VIS produces sugar radicals in DNA.

Sharma, Kiran^*,1, Purkayastha, Shubhadeep¹, Naumenko, Katerina¹, Swarts, Steven¹, Bernhard, William¹, ¹ Biochemistry & Biophysics, Rochester, New York, USA
(PP027) Distribution of products formed by the direct radiation damage to DNA films: the d(CGCGCG)₂ duplex.

Gillard, Nathalie ¹, Begusova, Marie², Castaing, Bertrand¹, Culard, Francoise¹, Spotheim-Maurizot, Melanie ^*,1, ¹ Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire, Orleans, France, France² Department of Radiation Dosimetry, Prague 8, Czech Republic, Czech Republic
(PP028) Radiolysis of DNA-binding proteins : experiment versus calculation.

Swartz, Harold^*,1, Iwasaki, Akinori¹, Walczak, Tadeusz¹, Demidenko, Eugene¹, Salikhov, Ildar¹, Romanyukha, Alex², Schauer, David², Starewicz, Piotr³, ¹ EPR Center for the Study of Viable Systems, Hanover, NH, USA² Dept. of Radiology & Radiological Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA³ Resonance Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, USA
(PP029) Method to measure clinically significant exposures to ionizing radiation "after-the-fact" suitable for terrorist incidents or accidents.

Zheng, Yi^*,1, Cloutier, Pierre¹, Hunting, Darel ¹, Wagner, Richard¹, Sanche, Léon¹, ¹ Dept. of Nuclear Medicine & Radiobiology/ Canadian Institutes of Health Research Group in the Radiation Sciences, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
(PP030) Electron transfer in DNA by low-energy electrons: effect of a stable abasic site on cleavage in model tetramers.