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Radiobiology for the radiologist /

"The seventh edition is the most radical revision of this textbook to date and now includes color figures, a visual transformation over the sixth edition. However, we were careful to retain the same format as the sixth edition, which divided the book into two parts. Part I contains 17 chapters...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Hall, Eric J. (Autor), Giaccia, Amato J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, PA : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2012]
Edición:Seventh edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Section I. For Students of Diagnostic Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, and Radiation Oncology. 1. Physics and Chemistry of Radiation Absorption
  • 2. Molecular Mechanisms of DNA and Chromosome Damage and Repair
  • 3. Cell Survival Curves
  • 4. Radiosensitivity and Cell Age in the Mitotic Cycle
  • 5. Fractionated Radiation and the Dose-Rate Effect
  • 6. Oxygen Effect and Reoxygenation
  • 7. Linear Energy Transfer and Relative Biologic Effectiveness
  • 8. Acute Radiation Syndrome
  • 9. Radioprotectors
  • 10. Radiation Carcinogenesis
  • 11. Heritable Effects of Radiation
  • 12. Effects of Radiation on the Embryo and Fetus
  • 13. Radiation Cataractogenesis
  • 14. Radiological Terrorism
  • 15. Molecular Imaging
  • 16. Doses and Risks in Diagnostic Radiology, Interventional Radiology and Cardiology, and Nuclear Medicine
  • 17. Radiation Protection
  • Section II. For Students of Radiation Oncology. 18. Cancer Biology
  • 19. Dose-Response Relationships for Model Normal Tissues
  • 20. Clinical Response of Normal Tissues
  • 21. Model Tumor Systems
  • 22. Cell, Tissue, and Tumor Kinetics
  • 23. Time, Dose, and Fractionation in Radiotherapy
  • 24. Retreatment after Radiotherapy : The Possibilities and the Perils
  • 25. Alternative Radiation Modalities
  • 26. The Biology and Exploitation of Tumor Hypoxia
  • 27. Chemotherapeutic Agents from the Perspective of the Radiation Biologist
  • 28. Hyperthermia.