Ionisation cluster-size formation by electrons: From macroscopic to nanometric target sizes

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 122, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 437-445

  Grosswendt, Bernd ^a  

^a Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt ^*  (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ELECTRON RADIATION; GENETIC DAMAGE; IONIZATION; IONIZING RADIATION; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PROBABILITY; RADIATION INJURY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DNA;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRONS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34347403481     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl520     Document Type: Article

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