A microdosimetric-kinetic theory of the dependence of the RBE for cell death on LET

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 7 I, 1998, Pages 1157-1170

  Hawkins, Roland B ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Ionizing radiation; LET; Mammalian cell death; Microdosimetry; RBE

Indexed keywords

CELL DEATH; IONIZING RADIATION; MAMMALS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SHIELDING;

DOUBLE STRAND BREAKS; LINEAR QUADRATIC; MAMMALIAN CELLS; MICRO-DOSIMETRY; PAIR-WISE COMBINATIONS; QUADRATIC PARAMETERS; RADIATION-INDUCED; RANDOM VARIATION;

DNA;

DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IONIZING RADIATION; KINETICS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MICRODOSIMETRY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; THEORY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031812136     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598307     Document Type: Article

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