Nanodosimetry: The missing link between radiobiology and radiation physics?

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 893-897

  Nettelbeck, H ^a   Rabus, H ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biological effectiveness; Ionization cluster size; Nanodosimetry; Track structure

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; BIOLOGICAL CELLS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; BIOLOGICAL TARGETS; CLUSTER SIZES; CONCEPT-BASED; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; INELASTIC INTERACTION; MACROSCOPIC QUANTITIES; NANODOSIMETRY; NANOMETRES; NANOMETRICS; PARTICLE TRACKS; RADIATION INDUCED DAMAGE; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIATION QUALITY; SUBCELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; TRACK STRUCTURE;

IONIZATION; IONIZING RADIATION;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 80052926102     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2011.03.029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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