Dose-response relationship of dicentric chromosomes in human lymphocytes obtained for the fission neutron therapy facility MEDAPP at the research reactor FRM II

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-75

  Schmid, E ^a   Wagner, F M ^b   Romm, H ^c   Walsh, L ^c   Roos, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE RATES; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESSES; BLOOD SAMPLES; DICENTRIC CHROMOSOMES; DICENTRICS; FISSION NEUTRONS; GERMANY; HUMAN LYMPHOCYTES; IRRADIATION CHAMBERS; IRRADIATION CONDITIONS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; NEUTRON ENERGIES; NEUTRON THERAPIES; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESSES; RESPONSE CURVES; TOTAL DOSES; WHOLE BLOODS;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ATOMS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD; CHROMOSOMES; IRRADIATION; NEUTRONS; RESEARCH REACTORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

NEUTRON IRRADIATION;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR FISSION; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLYETHYLENE; RADIOTHERAPY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 58149348344     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-008-0202-z     Document Type: Article

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