Int J Radiat Biol. 2021 Jul 14;1-12. doi: 10.1080/09553002.2021.1948142. Epub 2021 Jul 14.
A forty-year journey from "classical" biophysics and radiobiology to hadrontherapy, space radiation and low dose rate underground radiobiology.
International journal of radiation biology
Maria Antonella Tabocchini
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Affiliations
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Rome, Italy.
- Formerly: Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), National Center for Innovative Technologies in Public Health, Rome, Italy.
PMID: 34259611
DOI: 10.1080/09553002.2021.1948142
Abstract
PURPOSE: As a biologist who, since the beginning of her involvement in science, has collaborated closely with physicists, I want to share my forty years of experience describing the events that introduced me to the world of charged particle radiation biology as well as that of low doses/dose rates, with related implications in medicine and radiation protection.
CONCLUSION: The main features of my experience can be summarized in the development of an interdisciplinary culture and in the interest in technological advances for the study of biological responses to radiation in different scenarios, relevant for public health. Mine was a journey that began by chance, but which led me to a world that proved to be of great interest to me. With the current advances in science, the new generations of scientists have new opportunities that I wish them to face with the same interest and enthusiasm that I felt for such an interdisciplinary field as that of radiation biology.
Keywords: Charged particle radiobiology; hadrontherapy; include these here if the journal requires them; low doses/dose rates; space radiation; underground radiobiology
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