Spaceflight-relevant types of ionizing radiation and cortical bone: Potential LET effect?

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1889-1897

  Lloyd, Shane A J ^a   Bandstra, Eric R ^a   Travis, Neil D ^a   Nelson, Gregory A ^b   Bourland, J Daniel ^c   Pecaut, Michael J ^b   Gridley, Daila S ^b   Willey, Jeffrey S ^a   Bateman, Ted A ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone loss; Cortical bone; Microcomputed tomography; Radiation; Spaceflight

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COSMOLOGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FRACTURE; HEAT RADIATION; IONIZING RADIATION; IRON; IRRADIATION; MAMMALS; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; MICROHARDNESS; MINERALS; SPACE FLIGHT; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

BIOLOGICAL MICROENVIRONMENTS; BIOMECHANICAL TESTING; BONE LOSS; CORTICAL BONE; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROGRAVITY CONDITIONS; PARTICLE IRRADIATION;

BONE;

EID: 48249092473     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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