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Reply To Lung Cancer Risk From Rn In Chinese Study, Werner Hofmann, Robert Katz, Zhang Chunxiang
Reply To Lung Cancer Risk From Rn In Chinese Study, Werner Hofmann, Robert Katz, Zhang Chunxiang
Robert Katz Publications
We are writing in response to comments by V. A. Archer (Archer 1987) on our study of lung cancer incidence in two Chinese areas, designated as the high background and the control area (Hofmann et al. 1986). In his comments, he asserts that the epidemiological data suffer from two serious defects.
Radiobiological Modeling Based On Track Structure, Robert Katz
Radiobiological Modeling Based On Track Structure, Robert Katz
Robert Katz Publications
Since the interaction of beams of charged particles with targets in physics is customarily based on beam fluence and interaction cross section we have chosen the same logical structure for our radiobiological model.
Proceeding from simple to complex systems we have first constructed and verified a track structure model of observable tracks in nuclear emulsions, then of dry enzymes and viruses, of scintillation counters, of TLD’s, of the Fricke dosimeter as prerequisite to the construction of a valid radiobiological model.
For this model we require 1) knowledge of the average radial distribution of local dose about the path of an …