TY - BOOK AU - Hall,Eric J. AU - Giaccia,Amato J. TI - Radiobiology for the radiologist SN - 0781741513 (alk. paper) U1 - 616.0757 21 PY - 2006/// CY - Philadelphia PB - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins KW - Radiology, Medical KW - Radiobiology KW - Medical physics KW - Radiation Effects KW - Radiotherapy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Physics and chemistry of radiation absorption -- DNA strand breaks and chromosomal aberrations -- Cell survival curves -- Radiosensitivity and cell age in the mitotic cycle -- Repair of radiation damage and the dose-rate effect -- Oxygen effect and reoxygenation -- Linear energy transfer and relative biologic effectiveness -- Acute effects of total-body irradiation -- Radioprotectors -- Radiation carcinogenesis -- Hereditary effects of radiation -- Effects of radiation on the embryo and fetus -- Radiation cataractogenesis -- 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 -- Predictive assays -- Alternative radiation modalities -- Radiosensitizers and bioreductive drugs -- Gene therapy -- Chemotherapeutic agents from the perspective of the radiation biologist -- Hyperthermia UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip063/2005031128.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip063/2005031128.html ER -