The depth-dependence of the biological effectiveness of 60Co gamma rays in a large absorber determined by dicentric chromosomes in human lymphocytes

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 442-446

  Schmid, Ernst ^a   Roos, Hartmut ^a   Kramer, Hans Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICENTRIC CHROMOSOME; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 54949138047     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncn069     Document Type: Article

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