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Ziad Francis
Researcher at Saint Joseph University
Publications - 67
Citations - 5777
Ziad Francis is an academic researcher from Saint Joseph University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Monte Carlo method & Electron. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 63 publications receiving 4432 citations. Previous affiliations of Ziad Francis include Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire & Blaise Pascal University.
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Geant4-DNA example applications for track structure simulations in liquid water: A report from the Geant4-DNA Project.
Sebastien Incerti,Sebastien Incerti,Ioanna Kyriakou,Mario A. Bernal,Marie-Claude Bordage,Marie-Claude Bordage,Ziad Francis,Susanna Guatelli,Susanna Guatelli,Vladimir Ivanchenko,M. Karamitros,Nathanael Lampe,Sang Bae Lee,Sylvain Meylan,Chul Hee Min,Wook Geun Shin,Pentti Nieminen,Dosatsu Sakata,Dosatsu Sakata,Dosatsu Sakata,Nicolas Tang,Carmen Villagrasa,H.N. Tran,Jeremy M. C. Brown +23 more
TL;DR: This Special Report presents a description of Geant4-DNA user applications dedicated to the simulation of track structures (TS) in liquid water and associated physical quantities (e.g., range, stopping power, mean free path…) and shows that the most recent sets of physics models available in Geant 4-DNA enable more accurate simulation of stopping powers, dose point kernels, and W-values in liquidWater.
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Diffusion-controlled reactions modeling in Geant4-DNA
M. Karamitros,Shuang Luan,Mario A. Bernal,John Allison,G. Baldacchino,Marie Davídková,Ziad Francis,Werner Friedland,V. Ivantchenko,A. Ivantchenko,A. Mantero,P. Nieminem,Giovanni Santin,H.N. Tran,V. Stepan,Sebastien Incerti +15 more
TL;DR: A general method of speeding-up chemical reaction simulations in fluids based on the Smoluchowski equation and Monte-Carlo methods, where all molecules are explicitly simulated and the solvent is treated as a continuum, which describes diffusion-controlled reactions.
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Geant4 Physics Processes for Microdosimetry Simulation: Design Foundation and Implementation of the First Set of Models
Stephane Chauvie,Ziad Francis,Susanna Guatelli,Sebastien Incerti,B. Mascialino,Philippe Moretto,Pentti Nieminen,Maria Grazia Pia +7 more
TL;DR: The Geant4 Low Energy Electromagnetic package as discussed by the authors is a low energy simulator for microdosimetry simulation of biological systems with a focus on the simulation of radiation effects in biological systems.
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Recent Improvements in Geant4 Electromagnetic Physics Models and Interfaces
Vladimir Ivanchenko,John Apostolakis,Alexander Bagulya,Haifa Ben Abdelouahed,Rachel Black,A. Ivanchenko,Alexey Bogdanov,Helmut Burkhard,Stephane Chauvie,P. Cirrone,Giacomo Cuttone,Gerardo Depaola,F. Di Rosa,Francesco Di Rosa,Sabine Elles,Ziad Francis,Vladimir Grichine,A. Ivanchenko,P. Gumplinger,Paul Gueye,Sebastien Incerti,J. Jaquemier,Jean Jacquemier,Anton Lechner,Francesco Longo,O. Kadr,O Kadri,Nicolas A. Karakatsanis,M. Karamitros,R. P. Kokoulin,Hisaya Kurashige,M. Maire,A. Mantero,B. Mascialino,Jakub Moscicki,Luciano Pandola,Joseph Perl,Ivan Petrović,Aleksandra Ristić-Fira,F. Roman,Francesco Romano,G. Russ,Giorgio Ivan Russo,Giovanni Santin,Andreas Schaelicke,Toshiyuki Toshito,H.N. Tran,L. Urbán,T. Yamashit,Tomohiro Yamashita,C. Zacharatou +50 more
TL;DR: The Geant4 toolkit as mentioned in this paper is a toolkit for the analysis of the electromagnetic (EM) physics of the standard and low-energy models, including relativistic models for bremsstrahlung and e+e-pair production, models of multiple and single scattering, hadron/ion ionization, microdosimetry for very low energies.
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Modeling Radiation Chemistry in the Geant4 Toolkit
M. Karamitros,A. Mantero,Sebastien Incerti,Werner Friedland,G. Baldacchino,Philippe Barberet,Mario A. Bernal,R. Capra,Christophe Champion,Ziad El Bitar,Ziad Francis,Paul Gueye,A. Ivanchenko,Vladimir Ivanchenko,Hisaya Kurashige,B. Mascialino,Philippe Moretto,Petteri Nieminen,Giovanni Santin,Hervé Seznec,H.N. Tran,Carmen Villagrasa,C. Zacharatou,Helmholtz Zentrum München,Gleb Wataghin,Boulevard Arago +25 more
TL;DR: Mathieu KARAMITROS as mentioned in this paper, Alfonso MANTERO, Sebastien INCERTI, Werner FRIEDLAND, Gerard BALDACCHINO, Philippe BARBERET, Mario BERNAL, Riccardo CAPRA, Christophe CHAMPION, Ziad EL BITAR, Paul GUEYE, Anton IVANCHENKO, Vladimir IVanCHENko, Herve SEZNEC, Hoang N. TRAN, Carmen VILLAGRASA 9 and Christina ZACHARATOU 15