"Linear Energy Transfer" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Rate of energy dissipation along the path of charged particles. In radiobiology and health physics, exposure is measured in kiloelectron volts per micrometer of tissue (keV/micrometer T).
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D018499
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.154.240.400 G02.111.255.400 G02.216.400
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| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Linear Energy Transfer" by people in Profiles.
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Persaud R, Zhou H, Baker SE, Hei TK, Hall EJ. Assessment of low linear energy transfer radiation-induced bystander mutagenesis in a three-dimensional culture model. Cancer Res. 2005 Nov 01; 65(21):9876-82.
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Das IJ, Cheng CW, Mitra RK, Kassaee A, Tochner Z, Solin LJ. Transmission and dose perturbations with high-Z materials in clinical electron beams. Med Phys. 2004 Dec; 31(12):3213-21.