Biophysical modelling of radiation effects

Radiation Protection Programme of DGXII of the Commission of the European Communities, the Office for Health and Environmental Research of the United States Department of Energy and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare at Legnaro in Italy organized a workshop on Biophysical Modelling of Radiation Effects in Padua from 2--5 September 1991 to bring together the proponents of the different biophysical models in an objective review of the current status. This book presents the proceedings and the essential discussion from that workshop. Three sets of radiobiological data on cell transformation, chromosomal aberrations and mutations and on the interaction of mixed radiations were offered for analysis by the modellers and some of the presentations in this book deal with those analyses. Other presentations cover the recent development of the existing models as well as defining newer data sets which might be used to test the different models. The book should be of interest to radiation biophysicists, theoretical radiation biologists, microdosimetrists, and all those scientists who are involved with the application of models in radiation therapy and in the assessment of risk from low doses of ionizing radiation.