Dosimetric characteristics of the INTRABEAM ® system with spherical applicators in the presence of air gaps and tissue heterogeneities.

abstract：:The biophysical characteristics of heavy ions make them a rational source of radiation for use in radiotherapy of malignant tumours. Prior to radiotherapy treatment, a therapeutic regimen must be precisely defined, and during this stage information on individual patient radiosensitivity would be of very great medical ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Jianshe Y,Xigang J,Wenjian L,Zhuanzi W,Guangming Z,Jufang W,Bingrong D,Qingxiang G,Linda W

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of proton microchannel radiotherapy to reduce radiation effects in the healthy tissue but to keep tumor control the same as in conventional proton therapy is further elucidated. The microchannels spread on their way to the tumor tissue resulting in different fractions of the healthy tissue covered with d...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Girst S,Greubel C,Reindl J,Siebenwirth C,Zlobinskaya O,Dollinger G,Schmid TE

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to investigate if 1,800 MHz radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) can induce reactive oxygen species (ROS) release and/or changes in heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) expression in human blood cells, using different exposure and co-exposure conditions. Human umbilical cord blood-derived m...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Lantow M,Lupke M,Frahm J,Mattsson MO,Kuster N,Simko M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extensive programme of experiments on transfer of radionuclides to aquatic species was conducted in the former USSR starting from the early 1950s. Only a few of these studies were made available in the English language literature or taken into account in international reviews of radionuclide behaviour in marine eco...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Fesenko S,Fesenko E,Titov I,Karpenko E,Sanzharova N,Fonseca AG,Brown J

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：: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：:Estimates are presented on the carbon-14 generation rates in several reactor types and in peaceful nuclear explosions. If the carbon-14 generated in light water reactors is released, the population radiation dose rate it causes initially will be comparable to that resulting from the krypton-85 and tritium generated in...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Pohl RO

更新日期：1976-12-23 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：:The influence of neutron scattering in the wall of a spherical proportional counter on the energy deposition spectra and the absorbed dose is investigated. Event probabilities, and frequency and dose-averaged deposited energies are calculated with and without scattering contribution and compared. The change of absorbe...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Coppola M,Booz J

更新日期：1975-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effects of three disasters (the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, followed by a tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident) on feeding methods and growth in infants born after the disasters. Using results from the Fukushima Health Management Survey, Soso Distric...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Kyozuka H,Yasuda S,Kawamura M,Nomura Y,Fujimori K,Goto A,Yasumura S,Abe M

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microwave irradiation has been shown to decrease the input resistance of snail neurons. In this study, we examined the role of extracellular calcium in triggering the microwave-induced enhancement of membrane conductance. Two sets of experiments were conducted. In the first set, nerve cells were superfused using Ringe...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Arber SL,Lin JC

更新日期：1985-01-01 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 main target of this work is to examine blood clearance and external exposure for 177Lu-DOTATATE compared with new emerging 177Lu-PSMA therapy. Blood clearance and radiation exposure of 31 patients treated with 5.5 ± 1.1 GBq 177Lu-DOTATATE were compared to those of 23 patients treated with 7.4 GBq 177Lu-PSMA. Dose ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Abuqbeitah M,Demir M,Uslu-Beşli L,Yeyin N,Sönmezoğlu K

更新日期：2018-03-01 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 aim of this interdisciplinary project is to establish slice culture preparations from rodents and humans as a new model system for studying effects of X-rays and heavy ions within normal and tumor tissues. The advantage of such slice cultures relies on the conservation of an organotypic environment, the easy treat...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Merz F,Müller M,Taucher-Scholz G,Rödel F,Stöcker H,Schopow K,Laprell L,Dehghani F,Durante M,Bechmann I

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Model experiments with two structurally different proteins (alcohol dehydrogenase and salmine) show that glycine, alanine, and tyrosine are by far more frequently involved in photochemically induced cross-link formations with DNA than is cysteine. The yields for cross-link formation of thymidine with salmine (cysteine...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Toth B,Dose K

更新日期：1976-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Those working in interventional cardiology are exposed to varying radiation doses during diagnostic and interventional procedures. The work presented in this paper aimed to monitor the effective doses received by different categories of medical staff members practicing interventional cardiology procedures including se...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Ghany HAA,Diab HM,Salah A,Taha AA

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to ionizing radiation has well-documented long-term effects on cancer rates and other health outcomes in humans. While in vitro experimental studies had demonstrated that the nature of some radiation effects depend on both total dose of the radiation and the dose rate (i.e., the pattern of dose distribution o...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Sokolnikov M,Preston D,Stram DO

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescent intercalation complex of ethidium bromide with DNA was used as a probe to demonstrate damage in the base-pair region of DNA, due to the action of superoxide radicals. The O.2- radical itself, generated by gamma-radiolysis of oxygenated aqueous Na-formate solutions, is rather ineffective with respect to...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Prütz WA

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simple, ellipsoidal geometries have long been the standard for estimating radiation dose rates in non-human biota (NHB). With the introduction of a regulatory protection standard that emphasizes protection of NHB as its own end point, there has been interest in improved models for the calculation of dose rates in NHB....

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Ruedig E,Caffrey E,Hess C,Higley K

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has generally been assumed that the neutron and γ-ray absorbed doses in the data from the life span study (LSS) of the Japanese A-bomb survivors are too highly correlated for an independent separation of the all solid cancer risks due to neutrons and due to γ-rays. However, with the release of the most recent data ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Walsh L

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a consequence of the increased use of renewable energy and the now long distances between energy generation and consumption, in Europe, electric power transfer by high-voltage (HV) direct current (DC) overhead power lines gains increasing importance. Thousands of kilometers of them are going to be built within the ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Leitgeb N

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to verify whether extremely low frequency (ELF) magnetic fields (MF) could affect transposition activity like some environmental stress factors such as heat shock or UV irradiation. Using an Escherichia coli Lac Z(-) strain transformed with a plasmid containing a Tn 10 derivative element expr...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Del Re B,Garoia F,Mesirca P,Agostini C,Bersani F,Giorgi G

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the application of a simplified Bayesian method for estimation of doses from a mixed field using cytogenetic biological dosimetry, taking as an example neutron and gamma radiation emitted from the MARIA nuclear research reactor in Poland. The Bayesian approach is a good alternative to the common...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Słonecka I,Łukasik K,Fornalski KW

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heads of rats were irradiated by 4 MeV electrons in doses 90, 180, and 360 Gy. The observed times of deaths ranged 120-600, 60-420, and 150-370 min after 90, 180, and 360 Gy, respectively. A dose dependent decrease of the brain uptake index of haloperidol was observed 1 and 3 h post radiation. On the other hand an...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Trnovec T,Volenec K,Bezek S,Kállay Z,Durisová M,Scasnár V,Kubu M,Svoboda V

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study reported in the present paper aimed to evaluate the effective energy (Eeff) of X-rays emitted from the surface of a bare X-ray probe and from different spherical applicators with various diameters, which are widely employed for low kV intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) of breast cancer. A previously validate...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Shamsabadi R,Baghani HR,Mowlavi AA,Azadegan B

更新日期：2021-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Frequently knowledge of elemental content of human organs and tissues is required for a variety of applications. These can include brachytherapy and radiotherapy planning, radiation dosimetry and radiation protection. Revised reference values of chemical element mass fractions in normal and cancerous prostate tissues ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Zaichick V,Wynchank S

更新日期：2021-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate constants for the photodynamic inactivation of hen egg-white lysozyme at different temperatures were studied. Arrhenius plots of the methylene blue sensitized photo-inactivation of lysozyme gave an experimental activation energy of 7.5 kcal/mol. The rate constants for the photodynamic inactivation of lysozyme...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Silva E

更新日期：1979-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Many experimental studies are carried out to compare biological effectiveness of high dose rate (HDR) with that of low dose rate (LDR). The rational for this is the uncertainty regarding the value of the dose rate effectiveness factor (DREF) used in radiological protection. While a LDR is defined as 0.1 mGy/min or low...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Olofsson D,Cheng L,Fernández RB,Płódowska M,Riego ML,Akuwudike P,Lisowska H,Lundholm L,Wojcik A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this pilot study we compared for the first time the radiation sensitivity of mouse lens epithelial cells (LECs) and mouse lymphocytes. We freshly prepared LECs and lymphocytes and irradiated them with γ-rays ((137)Cs; doses ranging from 0.25 to 2 Gy). DNA damage and repair were evaluated by alkaline comet assay and...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Bannik K,Rössler U,Faus-Kessler T,Gomolka M,Hornhardt S,Dalke C,Klymenko O,Rosemann M,Trott KR,Atkinson M,Kulka U,Graw J

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00