Improvement of the local effect model (LEM) - Implications of clustered DNA damage

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 122, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 475-477

  Elsasser, Th ^a   Scholz, M ^a  

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^b Germany

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ION THERAPY; LUNG FIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBROBLAST; HAMSTER; HUMAN; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRICETINAE; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 34347390684     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl521     Document Type: Article

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