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Heavy-Ion Dosimetry

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A comprehensive and accurate definition of the physical characteristics of a radiation field is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for understanding (and predicting) the probability of observing a biological effect. Part of the difficulty of doing this stems from the fact that very often the biological final state accessible to observation is the end result of a long sequence of events following the irradiation, when most of the information has been distributed among many degrees of freedom. Demography is not a very good starting point for the study of photosynthesis, yet that is, in essence, what we are often forced to do.

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  1. Division of Biology and Medicine, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Walter Schimmerling

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  1. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

    Ralph H. Thomas

  2. University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Victor Perez-Mendez

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Schimmerling, W. (1980). Heavy-Ion Dosimetry. In: Thomas, R.H., Perez-Mendez, V. (eds) Advances in Radiation Protection and Dosimetry in Medicine. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1715-0_22

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