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1.9 MeV X-rays
Materials: Human peripheral blood (Cutured for 50 hours)
Source: Linear accelerator produced X-rays with mean energy 1.9 MeV (Unversity of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Dicentrics and rings
Dose No. of Dic+Ring Distribution of cells with indicated number of dicentrics+rings
(Gy) cells 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
0 2295 0 2295
0.15 576 0 576
0.5 800 10 790 10
1 270 16 254 16
1.5 250 35 216 33 1
2 150 30 121 28 1
3 100 58 53 38 7 2
4 160 141 64 61 28 4 3
5 200 309 45 63 48 30 12 2
6 150 292 18 38 50 26 15 2 1
8 120 370 3 18 29 23 25 14 5 1 1 1
12 130 734 2 4 9 23 28 31 16 8 6 2 1
20 120 1160 3 2 11 15 9 21 13 17 9 8 2 3 2 1 2 1
25 60 707 1 4 3 5 10 6 8 6 3 7 2 4 1
30 62 812 2 6 5 5 6 11 7 6 7 1 3 1 1 1
40 20 337 2 3 1 1 3 3 2 2 1 1 1
50 20 336 1 1 2 2 3 2 4 1 2 1 1
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Dicentrics
Dose No. of Dic Distribution of cells with indicated number of dicentrics
(Gy) cells 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
0 2295 0 2295
0.15 576 0 576
0.5 800 9 791 9
1 270 13 257 13
1.5 250 29 222 27 1
2 150 25 125 25
3 100 49 59 34 6 1
4 160 117 7456 61 20 4 1
5 200 261 27 50 47 24 4 2
6 150 234 6 24 45 18 10
8 120 307 4 34 27 20 5 2 1 1
12 130 609 5 23 24 38 21 10 1 4
20 120 1007 2 3 6 17 15 21 21 14 10 5 1 4 1
25 60 593 2 2 3 5 9 9 9 3 4 4 7 2 1
30 62 688 1 1 3 7 5 10 11 12 2 3 2 3 1 1
40 20 266
50 20 302
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References: (1) Norman A, Sasaki MS (1966). Int J Radiat Biol, 11:321-328.
(2) Norman A (1967): Multi-hit aberrations. In, Evans HJ, Court Brown WM and McLean AS, eds. "Human Radiation Cytogenetics", North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, pp.53-57.
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