Biophysical modeling of fragment length distributions of DNA plasmids after X and heavy-ion irradiation analyzed by atomic force microscopy

Radiation Research

Volumn 169, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 649-659

  Elsässer, Thilo ^a   Brons, Stephan ^b   Psonka, Katarzyna ^a,c   Scholz, Michael ^a   Gudowska Nowakc, Ewa ^c   Taucher Scholz, Gisela ^a  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center   (Germany)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DNA FRAGMENT; NICKEL; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HEAVY ION RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; X RAY;

BIOPHYSICS; CARBON; DNA; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; HEAVY IONS; IONS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NICKEL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; URANIUM; X-RAYS;

EID: 44849121667     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR1028.1     Document Type: Article

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