Is there reliable experimental evidence for a low-dose RBE of about 4 for mammography X rays relative to 200 kV X rays?

Radiation Research

Volumn 158, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 778-781

  Schmid, Ernst ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL LINE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DICENTRIC CHROMOSOME; EXPERIMENTATION; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; HYBRID CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY; LITERATURE; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; X RAY;

EID: 0036895627     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/0033-7587(2002)158[0778:ITREEF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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