Dose-response curves for late functional changes in the normal rat brain after single carbon-ion doses evaluated by magnetic resonance imaging: Influence of follow-up time and calculation of relative biological effectiveness

Radiation Research

Volumn 158, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 545-555

  Karger, Christian P ^a   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Peschke, Peter ^a   Münter, Marc W ^a   Heiland, Sabine ^a   Hartmann, Günther H ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HEAVY ION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; FRONTAL LOBE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE; RAT; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; SPINAL CORD; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TISSUE REACTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036843179     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/0033-7587(2002)158[0545:DRCFLF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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