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radiobiological

Definitions

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to radiobiology

Etymologies

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radio- +‎ biological

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Examples

  • At about the same time, Luria, a research minded physician, who had just come to the United States from Italy, was using bacteriophages in radiobiological experiments of the kind that the Berlin group had performed on fruit-flies.

    Physiology or Medicine 1969 - Press Release 1969

  • They added that there is no known radiobiological explanation? although they said it is possible cumulative exposure is important? and the rise in the use of mobiles has not been matched by an upward trend in the numbers of brain tumours.

    No link to child cancer from phone masts, finds study health editor 2010

  • These issues are particularly relevant in view of developments in radiobiological research over the past 15 years.

    Health effects of the Chernobyl accident 2008

  • Former Livermore Laboratory whistleblower, Leuren Moret, gives us a clue as to why a nation might want to "test" Depleted Uranium within its own country: "International scientists, Drs. Andre Gsponer, J. - P. Hurni, and B. Vitali, watch-dogging nuclear weapons developments globally, pointed out that DU weaponry is being used to study the radiobiological effects of the new nuclear weapons now under development."

    Depleted Uranium Poison Targets US Citizens 2007

  • On our return to U.K. the Medical Research Council established a radio-biological research unit at Harwell which has been a centre of radiobiological research ever since.

    The Miracle of Atomic Energy 1959

  • "Furthermore, the industry was not only cognizant of the potential 'cancerous growth' in the lungs of regular smokers, but also did quantitative radiobiological calculations to estimate the long-term lung radiation absorption dose of ionizing alpha particles emitted from cigarette smoke."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • [1] Dimos Baltas, Georgia Lymperopoulou, Edgar Löffler, Panayiotis Mavroidis, "A radiobiological investigation on dose and dose rate for permanent implant brachytherapy of breast using I-125 or Pd-103 sources", Medical Physics, Vol. 37, No. 6, June 2010. 2

    ITnews 2010

  • "It seems that based on our physical and radiobiological study, it exist a window of opportunity for permanent implants with low energy sources for the partial breast irradiation of early stage breast cancer", said Prof. Dimos Baltas, Department of

    ITnews 2010

  • TomoTherapy users from around the world attended the AAPM annual meeting, presenting on topics that addressed: the successful use of TomoTherapy's unique radiation therapy solution across a wide range of cases; planning studies documenting the clinical advantages of TomoTherapy over treatments from conventional radiation therapy devices; and investigations into radiobiological treatment improvements using the unique CT scanner-based TomoTherapy platform.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2009

  • Many years ago, researchers proposed that high-energy charged particles could be used for this purpose, owing to their physical and radiobiological advantages compared with X-rays.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Marco Durante 2009

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