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Diploid yeast,Saccharomyces cerevisiae, was exposed to single microsecond pulses of 12-MeV-electrons at dose rates up to 3×1010 rad s−1 under oxygenated and hypoxic conditions. No difference in surviving fractions was found with total doses up to about 150 krad as compared to exposures at conventional dose rates.
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On leave from Strahlenzentrum der Universität Gießen. Present address: Institut für Biophysik, Strahlenzentrum, 63 Gießen, Germany.
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Kiefer, J., Ebert, M. The effect of ultra-high dose-rateβ-ray irradiation in aerobic and hypoxic conditions on the survival of diploid yeast. Biophysik 6, 271–274 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01189087
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