Radiation Tolerance of the Rat Spinal Cord after Single and Split Doses of Photons and Carbon Ions

Radiation Research

Volumn 160, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 536-542

  Debus, Jürgen ^a,b   Scholz, Michael ^c   Haberer, Thomas ^b   Peschke, Peter ^b   Jäkel, Oliver ^b   Karger, Christian P ^b   Wannenmacher, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c Gesell fur Schwerionenforschung ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NECROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; IRRADIATION; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; STAINING; WHITE MATTER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; MALE; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIOMETRY; RATS; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0347596708     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/3063     Document Type: Article

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