Published 1985 | Version v1
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A new facility for radiobiological studies with proton beams: Survival and DNA damage in mammalian cells

  • 1. Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Roma, INFN Sezione Sanita, Roma

Description

A beam line suitable to study the radiobiological efficiency of protons near the Bragg peak has been set up at the CN-7MV Van de Graaf accelerator of the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro. The facility makes it possible irradiation, under atmospheric pressure, of cultured cells growing as monolayer on mylar foils, with monoenergetic proton beams in the energy range 0-6 MeV at dose rates from tens of mGy/min to tens of Gy/min. Short time and long time biological end points, as DNA damage (single strand and double strand breaks) and survival, have been studied in V79 cells, and the results compared to that obtained using X rays

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Publishing Information

Publisher
World Scientific Pub. Co.
Imprint Place
Teaneck, NJ (USA)
ISBN
9971-50-110-4
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the conference on physics in environmental and biomedical research
Journal Page Range
p. 109-114.

Conference

Title
Physics in environmental and biomedical research conference.
Dates
26-29 Nov 1985.
Place
Rome (Italy).