Discrimination between various dose levels in whole-body irradiated mice, by counts of bone marrow samples
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Camilo Segreto; Frederic C. Ludwig
- Source
- The International journal of applied radiation and isotopes. 23(12)
- Subject
- Male
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Radiation
Erythrocytes
fungi
Radiation dose
food and beverages
Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation
Biology
Radiation Dosage
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Radiation Effects
Mice
medicine.anatomical_structure
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Nucleated cell
Bone Marrow
Immunology
medicine
Animals
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Irradiation
Bone marrow
Whole body
- Language
- ISSN
- 0020-708X
The ratio erythrocytes/nucleated cells (which can be determined in bone marrow samples of variable and unpredictable size) is positively correlated with the radiation dose. This can be used to estimate clinically important dose levels in whole-body exposed mammals.