Design of a radiation facility for very small specimens used in radiobiology studies

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2953-2970

  Rodriguez, Manuel ^a,b   Jeraj, Robert ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF HONDURAS   (Honduras)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BIOPHYSICS; CAMERAS; CELL CULTURE; COMPUTER CONTROL; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTERS; FACILITIES; HEALTH; MONITORING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVITY; TECHNOLOGY;

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; BEAM PATHS; CENTRAL AXIS; COMPUTER-CONTROLLED; CULTURES (TRADITIONAL); IMAGE-BASED; INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS; MONITORING SYSTEMS; PHOTON BEAMS; RADIATION SOURCES; RADIOBIOLOGY RESEARCH; RELATIVE DISTANCES; SMALL SPECIMEN; ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAMERA; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER; IRRADIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT; X RAY; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; MINIATURIZATION; RADIOBIOLOGY; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 45749135774     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/11/013     Document Type: Article

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