Hydrated thymine cluster in the supersonic gas jet

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 122, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 95-99

  Kagawa, Takeshi ^a   Aikawa, Koji ^a   Sato, Fuminobu ^a   Kato, Yushi ^a   Iida, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CATION; NITROGEN; THYMINE; DNA; WATER;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DNA DAMAGE; GAS; IONIZATION; NEODYMIUM LASER; OSCILLOSCOPE; SIMULATION; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VACUUM; WATER VAPOR; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GASES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; THYMINE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WATER;

EID: 34347385669     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl403     Document Type: Article

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