Does the limiting F value at very low doses depend systematically on linear energy transfer?

Radiation Research

Volumn 152, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 563-566

  Schmid, E ^a   Braselmann, H ^a   Bauchinger, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL COUNT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICENTRIC CHROMOSOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW;

CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; LYMPHOCYTES; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 0032694109     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3580155     Document Type: Review

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