The effects of delta rays on the number of particle-track traversals per cell in laboratory and space exposures

Radiation Research

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-119

  Cucinotta, Francis A ^a   Nikjoo, Hooshang ^b   Goodhead, Dudley T ^b  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS; LABORATORY; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SPACE;

NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH;

CELLS; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOBIOLOGY;

EID: 0031830904     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579651     Document Type: Note

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