Is there reliable experimental evidence for different dicentric yields in human lymphocytes produced by mammography X-rays free-in-air and within a phantom?

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-22

  Buermann L ^a   Krumrey, M ^a   Haney, M ^b   Schmid, E ^b,c  

^a Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt ^*  (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; IRRADIATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONOCHROMATORS; PHOTONS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; X RAYS;

DICENTRICS; ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN LYMPHOCYTES; WEIGHTED MEAN VALUES;

CELLS;

AIR; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALCULATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICENTRIC CHROMOSOME; DOSE RESPONSE; ENERGY; EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PHOTON; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RELIABILITY; SPECTRUM; X IRRADIATION; X RAY; XEROMAMMOGRAPHY;

AIR; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; X-RAYS;

EID: 21244468706     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-005-0273-z     Document Type: Article

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