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Mechanistic model of radiotherapy-induced lung fibrosis using coupled BioDynaMo and Monte Carlo simulations

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 We are proud to announce the newly published manuscript " Mechanistic model of radiotherapy-induced lung fibrosis using coupled 3D agent-based and Monte Carlo simulations " by Nicolò Cogno , Roman Bauer , and Marco Durante , appearing on  Communications Medicine volume 4, Article number: 16 (2024). Fig. 1: Alveolar segment model in TOPAS-nBio . In this work, the authors develop and characterize a coupled 3D agent-based – Monte Carlo model that mechanistically simulates the onset of the radiation-induced lung fibrosis in an alveolar segment, laying thus the groundwork for further investigating the effects of different radiotherapeutic treatments on the onset of radiation-induced lung fibrosis via mechanistic modelling. The featured 3D agent based models are (of course) developed using the open-source platform BioDynaMo , and the implementation details have been shared in previous work by the same trio  here , and here . Without further ado, if you are interested in studying