Confocal microscopy for modeling electron microbeam irradiation of skin.

abstract：:Computational models of human anatomy are mathematical representations of human anatomy designed to be used in dosimetry calculations. They have been used in dosimetry calculations for radiography, radiotherapy, nuclear medicine, radiation protection and to investigate the effects of low frequency electromagnetic fiel...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Caon M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, direct DNA damage induced by low-energy electrons (<5 keV) is simulated using Monte Carlo methods, and the resulting yield of various strand breaks and base damages in cellular environment is presented. The simulation is based on a new inelastic cross section for the production of electron track structur...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Zhang L,Tan Z

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to evaluate the biological effects of gamma irradiation on zebrafish embryos. Different doses of gamma rays (0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5 and 1 Gy) were used to irradiate zebrafish embryos at three developmental stages (stage 1, 6 h post-fertilization (hpf); stage 2, 12 hpf; stage three, 24 hpf), respectively...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Hu M,Hu N,Ding D,Zhao W,Feng Y,Zhang H,Li G,Wang Y

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of heavy ion therapy for clinical use in cancer therapy stems from the biological parameters of heavy charged particles and their precise dose localization. Biologically, carbon, neon, and other heavy ion beams (up to about silicon) are clinically useful in overcoming the radioresistance of hypoxic tumor...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Castro JR

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth rates and cell diameters were determined from 12 species of plant roots exposed to a 60-Hertz (Hz) electric field of 360 Volts per meter (V/m) in an aqueous inorganic nutrient medium [conductivity: 0.07-0.09 Siemens per meter (S/m)]. The degree of growth depression ranged from zero to nearly 100 percent of cont...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Inoue M,Miller MW,Carstensen EL,Brayman AA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radiation-induced process of strand breaks on pBR322 plasmid DNA in aqueous solution for different energy electrons was studied by Monte Carlo simulation. Assumptions of induction mechanisms of single- and double-strand breaks (SSBs and DSBs) used in the simulation are that SSB is induced by OH or H reaction with ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Watanabe R,Saito K

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work describes the radiological assessment of the near-surface Maisiagala radioactive waste repository (Lithuania) over the period 2005-2012, with focus on water pathways and special emphasis on tritium. The study includes an assessment of the effect of post-closure upgrading, the durability of which is greater t...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Nedveckaite T,Gudelis A,Vives i Batlle J

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypoxic cytotoxic effect of chlorpromazine towards E. coli B/r was observed to be dependent on temperature of incubation and irradiation. Increasing the temperature of incubation from ambient to 37 degrees C followed by irradiation revealed that the organisms showed radiosensitivity of a magnitude which was two to...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Shenoy MA,Singh BB

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model which simulates the observed dose-effect relationships for fish eggs exposed to chronic irradiation is presented. The model assumes that the exposed fish eggs may exist in one of the following states: normally developing, reversibly damaged, and lethally damaged. Reversible damages may be recovere...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Kryshev AI,Sazykina TG,Badalian KD

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For studies on cell membranes, mice were exposed to mixed neutron + gamma reactor-radiation in the range of total doses from 0.5 to 4.5 Gy. Changes in functional activity of plasma membranes of erythrocytes, platelets, and lymphocytes were followed by a lectin-binding technique at various intervals afterwards. The amo...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Kubasova T,Antal S,Somosy Z,Köteles GJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of structural aberrations of chromosomes and of the body burden of lead-210 were carried out in a group of workers occupationally exposed to chemical pollutants and low doses of ionizing radiation during a technological process in which coal is used as fuel. A parallel study was performed in a control group o...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Horvat D,Bauman A,Racić J

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An LBO (Li2B4O7) walled ionization chamber was designed to monitor the epithermal neutron fluence in boron neutron capture therapy clinical irradiation. The thermal and epithermal neutron sensitivities of the device were evaluated using accelerator neutrons from the 9Be(d, n) reaction at a deuteron energy of 4 MeV (4 ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Endo S,Sato H,Shimazaki T,Nakajima E,Kotani K,Suda M,Hamano T,Kajimoto T,Tanaka K,Hoshi M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity catalysing double-strand DNA recombination has been investigated in human tumour cell lines using an in vitro assay in which nuclear extracts from tumour cells are used to catalyse homologous recombination between deletion plasmids. The cell lines investigated showed comparable constitutive levels of recombin...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Lehnert S,Chow TY

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-dependent yields of the most important products of water radiolysis E(aq)(-), (*)OH, H(*), H(3)O(+), H(2), OH(-) and H(2)O(2) have been calculated for (60)Co-photons, electrons, protons, helium- and carbon-ions incident onto water. G values have been evaluated for the interval from 1 ps to 1 mus after initial ene...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Kreipl MS,Friedland W,Paretzke HG

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beginning in 1950, people living on the banks of the Techa River received chronic low-dose-rate internal and external radiation exposures as a result of releases from the Mayak nuclear weapons plutonium production facility in the Southern Urals region of the Russian Federation. The Techa River cohort includes about 30...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Krestinina L,Preston DL,Davis FG,Epifanova S,Ostroumova E,Ron E,Akleyev A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Roots of Pisum sativum L. were chronically exposed to 60-Hz vertical electric fields ranging from 150 to 450V/m in an aqueous medium whose conductivity was approximately 0.07 S/m. Control and exposed roots were grown concomitantly in the same tank whose medium was continuously circulated and maintained at 19 degrees C...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Miller MW,Dooley DA,Cox C,Carstensen EL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Native horseradish peroxidase, as well as its reduced and carboxymethylated form, and the apoenzyme, showed resistance to photodynamic action. Sensitivity to this action was detected only in reduced and carboxymethylated apoenzyme, when the photooxidation of its histidine residues was observed. When analyzing the bulk...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Silva E,Barrera M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of supplying three different stable iodine levels (about 70, 80, and 160 mg day-1) in the daily feed of four dairy cows has been studied for the excretion pattern of 131I. None of the different treatments had a statistically significant effect. A mean milk transfer coefficient of 0.015 +/- 0.001 d l-1 was d...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Voigt G,Schotola C,Probstmeier G,Röhrmoser G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monte Carlo codes have been used for approximately 80 years to solve various problems in medical physics. In this paper, the importance of the MCNPX code in treatment planning is highlighted. As illustrative examples of the role of MCNPX in this field, some dosimetric parameters, isodose distribution curves, and figur...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Vahabi SM,Shamsaie Zafarghandi M

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxyhemoglobin saturation (HbO2) of single red blood cells within tumor microvessels (diameter: 3-12 micrometers) of DS-Carcinosarcoma was studied using a cryophotometric micromethod. In untreated control tumors (mean tissue temperature approx. 35 degrees C) the measured values scattered over the whole saturation r...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Vaupel PW,Otte J,Manz R

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing hair follicles with their rapid cell proliferation would be expected to be sensitive organs to cytotoxic agents such as radiation. Various abnormalities in the hair and hair follicles have been reported in the past. Changes in the number of cells in the newly forming hair cortex have been shown in the mouse to...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Potten CS,Burt PA,Roberts SA,Deshpande NA,Williams PC,Ramsden J

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigation of cell-free DNA (cf-DNA) in body fluids, as a potential biomarker for assessing the effect of ionizing radiation on the organism, is of considerable interest. We investigated changes in the contents of cell-free mitochondrial DNA (cf-mtDNA) and cell-free nuclear DNA (cf-nDNA) in the urine of X-ray-expos...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Abdullaev SA,Minkabirova GM,Bezlepkin VG,Gaziev AI

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the Theory of Dual Radiation Action, the heuristically useful function, gamma(chi), that two energy depositions, a distance chi apart, will result in observable damage can be written in terms of two more fundamental quantities: One, s(chi), describes the structure of the sensitive matrix of the cell. The other,...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Brenner DJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cl-36 is an important component of nuclear waste. The concentrations of stable chlorine (Cl) in pig and cow tissues were measured to provide information which can be used to parameterize models of (36)Cl transfer into agricultural animals. The concentration of stable Cl in cows' milk was 1.0 +/- 0.2 g L(-1), in cow mu...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Levchuk S,Kashparov V,Lazarev N,Colle C,Howard B,Yoschenko V,Yoschenko L

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological phenomena observed at low doses of ionizing radiation (adaptive response, bystander effects, genomic instability, etc.) are still not well understood. While at high irradiation doses, cellular death may be directly linked to DNA damage, at low doses, other cellular structures may be involved in what are...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Cunha M,Testa E,Komova OV,Nasonova EA,Mel'nikova LA,Shmakova NL,Beuve M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The observable responses of living systems to ionizing radiation depend on the level of biological organization studied. Understanding the relationships between the responses characteristic of the different levels of organization is of crucial importance. The main objective of the present study is to investigate how s...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Madas BG,Balásházy I

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of plutonium released by nuclear explosions is Pu-241 which decays to Am-241. We have studied the deposition of Pu-241 and Am-241 in lichens collected since 1958 in the central part of Sweden (62.3 degrees N, 12. 4 degrees E). Comparative studies with Pu-isotopes, Pu-239 + 240 and Pu-238 were also performed. In 1...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Holm E,Persson RB

更新日期：1978-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that the properties of ATPase (EC 3.6.1.3) of Micrococcus luteus depend only to some extent on the state of the membrane to which it is attached. Its interaction with the membrane appears to be largely controlled by polar forces. It is shown, however, that the UV-sensitivity of the membrane-bound ATPase is...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Volotovskij J,Risi S,Dose K

更新日期：1976-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:About a century ago, Conrad Röentgen discovered X-rays, and Henri Becquerel discovered a new phenomenon, which Marie and Pierre Curie later coined as radio-activity. Since their seminal work, we have learned much about the physical properties of radiation and its effects on living matter. Alas, the more we discover, t...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Feinendegen L,Hahnfeldt P,Schadt EE,Stumpf M,Voit EO

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C57Bl6-lacZ animals were exposed to a range of low dose-rate simulated solar particle event (sSPE) radiation at the NASA-sponsored Research Laboratory (NSRL) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). Peripheral blood was harvested from animals from 1 to 12 days after total body irradiation (TBI) to quantify the level o...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Chang PY,Doppalapudi R,Bakke J,Wang A,Menda S,Davis Z

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00