low-dose-rate radiation effects
The effects of low-dose radiation on articular cartilage: a review
... to radiation in medical ...yearly radiation exposure through radiotherapy and ionizing radiation diagnostic procedures, there has been a renewed interest in how radioinsensitive articular cartilage ...
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Is Use of Radiation Hormesis the Missing Link to a Better Cancer Treatment?
... survival rate) when low-dose radiation therapy as a stand-alone treatment may prove to be superior to all the current treatments currently used to treat the various cancers as it enhances the ...
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Effects of Beam Startup Characteristics on Dose Delivery Accuracy at Low Monitor Units in Step and Shoot Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy
... arbitrary dose rate and the average dose delivered over three or five segments with the same low MU in step-and shoot ...affect dose at low MUs because of differences in beam ...
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Effects of N-acetylcysteine on life shortening induced by chronic low dose-rate gamma-ray exposure in mice
... alleviate radiation-induced health effects is important for the practical use of radiation therapy and for understanding the molecular mechanisms mediating these ...life-shortening effects ...
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RADIATION DOSE-RATE EFFECTS ON SELECT BIOMARKERS IN A MOUSE TOTAL-BODY IRRADIATION MODEL
... the low dose-rate irradiations necessitated this unilateral setup, as using the smaller restraint boxes available for bilateral irradiation would have resulted in undesirable prolonged ...
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Effects of low dose-rate irradiation on human tumour cells
... lower dose rates a smaller biological response is observed than at higher dose ...between low and high-exposures was due to repair of damage occurring during the irradiation ...during low ...
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Radiation dose-rate effects on gene expression for human biodosimetry
... two dose rates: acute, 1.03 Gy/min and a low dose-rate, ...both dose-rates of ...between dose-rates with 100 % accuracy using leave-one-out ...
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Brachytherapy for cervix cancer: low-dose rate or high-dose rate brachytherapy – a meta-analysis of clinical trials
... savings, radiation protection, patient comfort, reduction of the need for general anesthesia, and less chance of applicators displacement make of this procedure an excellent treat- ment option ...unintended ...
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Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer: Low Dose-Rate (LDR) Brachytherapy Procedure
... There are medications you will have to take when having prostate brachytherapy. Your doctor and a nurse will talk to you about these medications. You will be given a calendar to remind you when to take them. The ...
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Effects of acute exposure to low-dose radiation on the characteristics of human bone marrow mesenchymal stromal/stem cells
... by flow cytometric analysis to confirm that these cells expressed mesenchymal stem cell markers but did not express hematopoietic cell markers [10]. BM-MSCs were exposed to 0.1 Gy γ-radiation (Cesium-137) at a ...
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Low dose radiation induced senescence of human mesenchymal stromal cells and impaired the autophagy process
... In conclusion, our data showed that human bone marrow MSC are sensitive to very low levels of radiation and trigger senescence due to impaired autophagy and DNA repair capacity. The presence of senescence ...
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Generation of Dose Volume Histograms Using Voxel Structure and the Monte Carlo Method in Low Dose Rate Brachytherapy
... The Dose Volume Histograms are tools commonly used in medical physics, for the analysis of doses delivered to the tumors and organs at risk, during radiotherapy ...of Dose Volume histograms, gen- erated ...
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How Serious Is Threat of Radiological Terrorism?
... As pointed out Charles D. Ferguson and his co-workers (2003) from Washington, DC Office of the Monterey Institute’s Center for Nonproliferation Studies, commercial radioactive sources are not cushioned in all cases and ...
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Low Dose CT for Craniosynostosis: Preserving Diagnostic Benefit with Substantial Radiation Dose Reduction
... how dose reduction and reconstruction approaches could be used syn- ergistically to maintain diagnostic ...routine- dose CT images for determination of the reference ...that dose reductions are ...
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1 Gel dosimetry with radio-fluorogenic coumarin 2
... Dose response was studied with ionizing radiation with respect to type, rate, and energy. 141[r] ...
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Abdominal irradiation modulates 5 Fluorouracil pharmacokinetics
... the radiation doses used in this study were much less than the tolerable doses to the liver, which in humans is defined as the radiation dose to normal tissue that results in a complication ...
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Radioactivity concentrations and dose assessment for soil samples from wheat plantation areas of Narok County, Kenya
... because low energy photo peaks coincides with Compton bumps hence causing interference in the ...These effects are important in the energy range that is lower than 60 keV, where FEP (Full energy peak) and ...
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coronary angiography using an ultra-low contrast media
... Several limitations of our study are worth con- sideration. First, because we focused on the IQ, the diagnostic accuracy was not evaluated by the gold standard of invasive coronary angiog- raphy. Second, the sample size ...
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Radiation protection programme 1990-91. Final report Volume 2. Research in radiation protection. EUR 15295 DE/EN/FR
... Kellerer Objectives for the reporting period Progress achieved including publications Publications 1503 1503 1504 HEALTH EFFECTS OF CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO LOW DOSE IONIZING RADIATION ON WOR[r] ...
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The Experimental Gamma Radiation Dose Rate for Radiation Hazard into Adhesive Building Materials in Saudi Arabia
... In this investigation, the sample activities in building materials were measured by using high-resolution gamma-ray spectrometry system consists of coaxial hyper-pure germanium (HPGe) detector with highly passive ...
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