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Interpretation of inverse dose-rate effects for mutagenesis by sparsely ionizing radiation

D. J. BRENNER, P. HAHNFELDT, S. A. AMUNDSON and R. K. SACHS Joint Center for Radiation Therapy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Departments of Mathematics and Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Pages 447-458 | Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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