Published 1988
| Version v1
Book
Clinical radiobiology. 2. ed.
Description
The book is intended to provide radiotherapists with a basic knowledge of radiobiology. Topics included for discussion are cell survival curves, modification of cell survival, recovery from cytotoxic damage, normal tissue early response, total body syndromes, tumor response, normal tissue late effects, fractionation, clinical applications, experimental therapy, risks and safety (genetic effects, prenatal exposure, ageing and life-shortening, carcinogenesis and leukaemogenesis). (U.K.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Churchill Livingstone.
- Imprint Place
- Edinburgh (UK)
- ISBN
- 0-443-03340-4
- Imprint Pagination
- 279 p.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- United Kingdom
- INIS RN
- 20060490
- Subject category
- S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DELAYED RADIATION EFFECTS; EARLY RADIATION EFFECTS; FRACTIONATED IRRADIATION; GENETIC RADIATION EFFECTS; LEUKEMOGENESIS; LIFE SPAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPONSE MODIFYING FACTORS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL CURVES
- Descriptors DEC
- BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BIOLOGY; CARCINOGENESIS; GENETIC EFFECTS; IRRADIATION; MEDICINE; PATHOGENESIS; RADIATION EFFECTS; THERAPY