Cellular effects of individual high-linear energy transfer particles and implications for tissue response at low doses

Radiation Research

Volumn 148, Issue 5 SUPPL., 1997, Pages

  Braby, Leslie A ^a,b   Brooks, A L ^b   Metting, N F ^b  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; MICRODOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TARGET CELL;

NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH; NON-NASA CENTER;

ALPHA PARTICLES; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; METHODS; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0030734736     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579724     Document Type: Review

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