COVID-19 and low-dose radiation therapy
Radiation Medicine and Protection, 2021 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative pathogen of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has caused more than 179 million infections and 3.8 million deaths worldwide.
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Immunomodulatory properties and molecular effects in inflammatory diseases of low-dose X-irradiation [PDF]
, 2012 Inflammatory diseases are the result of complex and pathologically unbalanced multicellular interactions. For decades, low-dose X-irradiation therapy (LD-RT) has been clinically documented to exert an anti-inflammatory effect on benign diseases and ...
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionExperimental studies complement epidemiological data on the biological effects of low doses and dose rates of ionizing radiation and help in determining the dose and dose rate effectiveness factor.MethodsHuman VH10 skin fibroblasts exposed to
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Enhanced Radiation-Induced Narrow Channel Effects in Commercial 0.18 μm Bulk Technology [PDF]
, 2011 Total ionizing dose effects are investigated in input/output transistors that are fabricated by using a commercial 0.18 μm bulk process. An enhanced radiation-induced narrow channel effect is demonstrated in N-type metal-oxide semiconductor (NMOS) and P ...
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Radiation Effects in Pinned Photodiode CMOS Image Sensors: Pixel Performance Degradation Due to Total Ionizing Dose [PDF]
, 2012 Several Pinned Photodiode (PPD) CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) are designed, manufactured, characterized and exposed biased to ionizing radiation up to 10 kGy(SiO2 ).
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Cardiovascular risks associated with low dose ionizing particle radiation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Previous epidemiologic data demonstrate that cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality may occur decades after ionizing radiation exposure. With increased use of proton and carbon ion radiotherapy and concerns about space radiation exposures to ...
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BCC and Childhood Low Dose Radiation [PDF]
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Journal, 2014 Skin cancer is a late complication of ionizing radiation. Two skin neoplasms prominent Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC) and Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) are the most famous complications of radiotherapy.
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An audit of patient radiation in low-dose CT pulmonary angiography
The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, 2016 Objectives: Assesment of radiation dose implementing low-dose CTPA protocols. Method: Retrospective analysis of radiation dose in two groups of adult patients, who underwent CECT chest and who were scanned by low-dose CTPA protocol from April 2014 to ...
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Ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and the risk of childhood cancer-illustrated with domestic radon and radio frequency electromagnetic field exposure [PDF]
, 2013 Background Children are exposed to many different environmental factors, including exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation and to non-ionizing radiation.
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Low dose γ-radiation induced effects on wax moth (Galleria mellonella) larvae [PDF]
, 2023 Larvae of the greater wax moth Galleria mellonella are common pests of beehives and commercial apiaries, and in more applied settings, these insects act as alternative in vivo bioassays to rodents for studying microbial virulence, antibiotic development,
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