Modelling radiation-induced biological lesions: From initial energy depositions to chromosome aberrations

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-13

  Ottolenghi, A ^a   Ballarini, F ^a   Merzagora, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; CALCULATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DROSOPHILA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERPHASE; IONIZING RADIATION; MITOSIS; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; THEORY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RADIOBIOLOGY;

EID: 0033011804     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004110050132     Document Type: Review

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