Response of Different Species to Total Body Irradiation: Series in Radiology, cartea 10

Some practical aspects of dosimetry and dose specification for whole body irradiation.- Dose and cell-survival calculations in anthropomorphic phantoms.- Susceptibility to total body irradiation.- Acute lethality - the hemopoietic syndrome in different species.- Early radiation mortality and recovery in large animals and primates.- Acute lethality and radiosensitivity of the canine hemopoietic system to Cobalt-60 gamma and mixed neutron-gamma irradiation.- Surmary of the discussion on physical aspects and acute lethality in different species.- Survival patterns and hemopathological responses of dogs under continuous gamma irradiation.- Haematopoietic syndrome in pigs.- Occurrence of radiation syndromes in rodents and monkeys in dependence on dose rate and radiation quality.- The response of man to accidental irradiation.- Total body irradiation and LD50 in man.- Biological factors affecting the occurrence of radiation syndromes.- Surmary of discussions following presentations on marrow response and hemopoietic syndromes.- Surmary of round table discussion on response of different species.

`...a ``must'' in the library of scientists, biologists and physicists who are involved in TBI applied to cure malignant diseases.'
Blut, 51:4 (1985)