Radiation Dose-Rate and DNA damage

摘要

In their article, Olipitz et al. (2012) examined signs of DNA damage after chronic exposure of C57B16 mice to low-level ionizing radiation (3 mGy/day). For 5 weeks, mice were irradiated continuously with 35.5 keV X-rays produced by the decay of iodine-125, yielding an accumulated dose of 105 mGy. The observed effects were compared with those from acute irradiation by X-ray machine at 1,700 mGy/day up to the same accumulated dose.