Radiobiology for the radiologist /
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| Author / Creator: | Hall, Eric J., author. |
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| Edition: | Eighth edition. |
| Imprint: | Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, [2019] |
| Description: | vii, 597 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11730596 |
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.
