Health effects of ionizing radiation
Biological and health effects of ionising radiation
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Health effects of ionizing radiation
Biological and health effects of ionising radiation

Authors : Dominique THIERRY, François PAQUET

Publication date: July 10, 2011 | Lire en français

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4. Health effects of ionizing radiation

The effects of radiation can be classified into two main families, each with fundamentally different characteristics. The effects of the first family appear in all cases, as soon as the dose exceeds a certain value, and their severity generally increases with the dose received; they are threshold effects, non-random and dependent on the nature of the tissues, called for this reason deterministic effects

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