Radiation is energy that moves from one place to another in a form that can be described as waves or particles. We are exposed to radiation in our everyday life. Some of the most familiar sources of ...

Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff of the New York University School of Medicine and colleagues exposed a group of 10- to 12-week-old mice to whole-body radiation at doses of 10–100 cGy. Three days later, they ...

Neutron activation analysis is a method for the qualitative and quantitative determination of elements based on the measurement of characteristic radiation from radionuclides formed by irradiating ...

Radiation Research, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Jan., 1974), pp. 88-103 (16 pages) Mouse testes were studied histologically 35 or 42 days after irradiation. When doses greater than about 800 rads of γ-rays are ...

Immunotherapy in metastatic melanoma: A sociodemographic analysis of the National Cancer Database. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2020 ASCO-SITC Clinical Immuno-Oncology Symposium. This ...

Modern instrumental chemical analysis employs a variety of techniques. Fluorescence spectroscopy is one of these methods and is based on the principle of excitation and emission of characteristic ...

What The Study Did: Characteristics and response to treatment of persistent radiation-induced hair loss in patients with primary central nervous system tumors or head and neck cancer were examined in ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Scintillators convert radiation energy into light and are utilized in a variety of fields including medicine and security. Of the many scintillators, Eu (europium)-doped CaF₂ (calcium ...

It’s important to understand how radiation therapy fits into your treatment plan so you can make choices about your care. Surgery is part of breast cancer treatment for most people. Your doctor may ...