Is pulsed dose rate more damaging to spinal cord of rats than continuous low dose rate?

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-47

  Haustermans, Karin ^a,c   Fowler, Jack ^a   Landuyt, Willy ^a   Lambin, Philippe ^a   Van Der Kogel, Albert ^b   Van Der Schueren, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; PDR; Pulsed dose rate; Two component repair

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RAT; SPINAL CORD; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; X RAY;

ANIMALS; BRACHYTHERAPY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030768451     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(97)00172-2     Document Type: Article

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