Cross section calculations for electron scattering from DNA and RNA bases

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 201-211

  Mozejko, Pawel ^a   Sanche, Léon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA BASE; GUANINE; RNA; THYMINE; URACIL;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; GEOMETRY; IONIZATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR SIZE; POLARIZATION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RNA SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; ELECTRONS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0347385168     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-003-0206-7     Document Type: Article

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