Thongchai Masilela, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Radiation Oncology
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Early Career Investigator Travel Award, Radiation Research Society, 2023
• Master's Scholarship, French Embassy in South Africa, 2018-2020
• Excellence Scholarship, IMT Atlantique, 2018-2020

Education & Training

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• PhD Medical Physics Université Paris-Saclay 2023
• MSc Nuclear Engineering IMT Atlantique 2020
• BEng Mechanical Engineering University of Pretoria 2018

Interests

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• Radiation Chemistry
• Spatially Fractionated Radiotherapy
• Radiobiology
• TOPAS and TOPAS-nBio
• Monte Carlo

Websites

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• ResearchGate (researchgate.net)
• LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
• Google Scholar (scholar.google.com)

Publications (5)

Top publication keywords:
Hydrogen PeroxideWaterRadiation ProtectionRadiotherapy, High-EnergyRadiometryReactive Oxygen SpeciesRadiotherapy DosageOxygenMonte Carlo MethodFree RadicalsDNA DamagePhotonsDNA Breaks, Double-StrandedGamma RaysPhantoms, Imaging

• Effect of FLASH dose-rate and oxygen concentration in the production of H2O2in cellular-like media versus water: a Monte Carlo track-structure study.
  Physics in medicine and biology 2025 D-Kondo JN, Borys D, Rucinski A, Brzozowska B, Masilela TAM, Grochowska-Tatarczak M, Wegrzyn M, Ramos-Mendez J
• Modeling the oxygen effect in DNA strand break induced by gamma-rays with TOPAS-nBio.
  Physics in medicine and biology 2024 D-Kondo N, Masilela TAM, Shin WG, Faddegon B, LaVerne J, Schuemann J, Ramos-Mendez J
• Monte Carlo study of the free radical yields in minibeam radiation therapy.
  Medical physics 2023 Masilela TAM, Prezado Y
• Dosimetry and radioprotection evaluations of very high energy electron beams.
  Scientific reports 2021 Masilela TAM, Delorme R, Prezado Y
• First theoretical determination of relative biological effectiveness of very high energy electrons.
  Scientific reports 2021 Delorme R, Masilela TAM, Etoh C, Smekens F, Prezado Y