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Chain processes and their biophysical applications: Part II. The effect of recovery

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The biological effects of radiations are studied on the basis of a general probabilistic model of successive transformations (Markoff chains). The process of recovery is taken into account as a series of reverse transitions. The theory gives methods for calculating the probability of subjecting a microorganism to an observable change within an assigned time during a process of irradiation of a homogeneous aggregate of microorganisms. Two methods of calculation are given: one requires the solution of a secular equation, the other one consists of expansions in power series of the intensities of recovery.

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Opatowski, I. Chain processes and their biophysical applications: Part II. The effect of recovery. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 8, 7–15 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478466

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