A focused scanning vertical beam for charged particle irradiation of living cells with single counted particles

Radiation Research

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 182-190

  Merchant, Michael J ^a   Jeynes, Jonathan C G ^a   Grime, Geoffrey W ^a   Palitsin, Vladimir ^a   Tullis, Iain D W ^b   Barber, Paul R ^b   Vojnovic, Boris ^b   Webb, Roger P ^a   Kirkby, Karen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HELIUM; PROTON;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL NUCLEUS; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICITY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; ION THERAPY; IRRADIATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; TARGET CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84866335644     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: 19385404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR2847.1     Document Type: Article

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