Nuclear fragmentation and the number of particle tracks in tissue

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 122, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 354-361

  Ponomarev, A L ^a,b   Cucinotta, F A ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b USRA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

WATER;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; DOSIMETRY; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; HEAVY ION RADIATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIMULATION; TISSUE INJURY; VELOCITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS;

ANIMALS; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RADIATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 34347400851     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl465     Document Type: Article

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