Basic Clinical Radiobiology 2017

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DNA is the principal target

Microbeam experiments with α particles from polonium show that the cell nucleus is the sensitive site

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10µm

α particles

Polonium

Scale of cell and needle

Munro TR. Radiat Res 1970;42:451

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