Radiobiology for the radiologist /

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Main Author: Hall, Eric John
Other Authors: Giaccia, Amato J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, c2012
Edition:7th ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Physics and chemistry of radiation absorption
  • Molecular mechanisms of DNA and chromosome damage and repair
  • Cell survival curves
  • Radiosensitivity and cell age in the mitotic cycle
  • Fractionated radiation and the dose-rate effect
  • Oxygen effect and reoxygenation
  • Linear energy transfer and relative biologic effectiveness
  • Acute radiation syndrome
  • Medical countermeasures to radiation exposure
  • Radiation carcinogenesis
  • Heritable effects of radiation
  • Effects of radiation on the embryo and fetus
  • Radiation cataractogenesis
  • Radiologic terrorism
  • Doses and risks in diagnostic radiology, interventional radiology and cardiology, and nuclear medicine
  • Radiation protection
  • Molecular techniques in radiobiology
  • Cancer biology
  • Dose-response relationships for model normal tissues
  • Clinical response of normal tissues
  • Model tumor systems
  • Cell, tissue, and tumor kinetics
  • Time, dose, and fractionation in radiotherapy
  • Retreatment after radiotherapy: the possibilities and the perils
  • Alternative radiation modalities
  • The biology and exploitation of tumor hypoxia
  • Chemotherapeutic agents from the perspective of the radiation biologist
  • Hyperthermia.