Auger electrons - A nanoprobe for structural, molecular and cellular processes

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 122, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 72-79

  Nikjoo, Hooshang ^a,b   Girard, P ^b   Charlton, D E ^c   Hofer, K G ^d   Laughton, C A ^b  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMINE DERIVATIVE; CHROMIUM 51; CISPLATIN; COPPER 64; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GALLIUM 67; HISTONE H2AX; IODINE 123; IODINE 124; IODINE 125; SELENIUM 75; TECHNETIUM 99M; THULIUM; DNA; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; BIOPHYSICS; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA STRUCTURE; NANOPROBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; SIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON; GENETIC PROCEDURES; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; ELECTRONS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 34347406351     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl441     Document Type: Review

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