Items tagged “radiation protection”
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Biomolecular radiation damage
Biomolecular radiation damage may result from exposure of biological tissues to ionizing radiation from direct exposure, or via Compton scattering.
Mechanism of tissue radiation damage
Direct effect
occurs when energy is directly deposited to the biological macromolecule (e.g. DNA, RNA, prote...
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Radicals
Radicals (formerly called free radicals) are uncharged atoms or molecules in which an electron orbit has a single unpaired electron.
Terminology
Historically the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) also used the term radical for any joined up group of atoms forming a side...