Optimal photon energies for IUdR K-edge radiosensitization with filtered x-ray and radioisotope sources

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2537-2549

  Karnas, Scott J ^a   Yu, Edward ^a,b   McGarry, Ronald C ^c   Battista, Jerry J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IDOXURIDINE; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CELL KILLING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA DAMAGE; IONIZING RADIATION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIOSENSITIZATION;

AMERICIUM; ANIMALS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; DNA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GAMMA RAYS; IDOXURIDINE; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; PHOTONS; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; RADIOISOTOPES; SAMARIUM; X-RAYS; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 0032864407     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/10/312     Document Type: Article

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