Basic Concepts of Radiation Biology

Ans Baeyens; Ana Margarida Abrantes; Vidhula Ahire; Elizabeth A. Ainsbury; Sarah Baatout; Bjorn Baselet; Maria Filomena Botelho; Tom Boterberg; Francois Chevalier; Fabiana da Pieve; Wendy Delbart; Nina Frederike Jeppesen Edin; Cristian Fernandez-Palomo; Lorain Geenen; Alexandros G. Georgakilas; Nathalie Heynickx; Aidan D. Meade; Anna Jelinek Michaelidesova; Dhruti Mistry; Alegría Montoro; Carmel Mothersill; Ana Salomé Pires; Judith Reindl; Giuseppe Schettino; Yehoshua Socol; Vinodh Kumar Selvaraj; Peter Sminia; Koen Vermeulen; Guillaume Vogin; Anthony Waked; Anne-Sophie Wozny

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-18810-7_2

Basic Concepts of Radiation Biology

Ans Baeyens^*
, Ana Margarida Abrantes
, Vidhula Ahire
, Elizabeth A. Ainsbury
, Sarah Baatout
, Bjorn Baselet
, Maria Filomena Botelho
, Tom Boterberg
, Francois Chevalier
, Fabiana da Pieve
, Wendy Delbart
, Nina Frederike Jeppesen Edin
, Cristian Fernandez-Palomo
, Lorain Geenen
, Alexandros G. Georgakilas
, Nathalie Heynickx
, Aidan D. Meade
, Anna Jelinek Michaelidesova
, Dhruti Mistry
, Alegría Montoro

Carmel Mothersill, Ana Salomé Pires, Judith Reindl, Giuseppe Schettino, Yehoshua Socol, Vinodh Kumar Selvaraj, Peter Sminia, Koen Vermeulen, Guillaume Vogin, Anthony Waked, Anne-Sophie Wozny

^*Corresponding author for this work

Ghent University
University of Coimbra
Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra
Chengdu Anticancer Bioscience, Ltd, Chengdu, China
J. Michael Bishop Institute of Cancer Research
UK Health Security Agency
Belgian Nuclear Research Center
Clinical Academic Center of Coimbra (CACC)
KU Leuven
Université de Caen Normandie
Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
European Commission
Hôpital Universitaire de Bruxelles (HUB)
University of Oslo
University of Bern
Erasmus University Rotterdam
National Technical University of Athens
Technological University Dublin
Czech Academy of Sciences
Czech Technical University in Prague
Hospital Universitario La Fe
McMaster University
Universität der Bundeswehr München
National Physical Laboratory
Jerusalem College of Technology
Thanjavur Medical College
Amsterdam UMC
University of Luxembourg
University of Liege
Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Hospices civils de Lyon

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Radiation biology is the study of the effects of ionizing radiation on biological tissues and living organisms. It combines radiation physics and biology. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the terminology and basic concepts of radiobiology to create a better understanding of the ionizing radiation interactions with a living organism. This chapter firstly describes the different types of radiation, the sources, and the radiation interactions with matter. The basic concepts of radioactivity and its applications are also included. Ionizing radiation causes significant physical and chemical modifications, which eventually lead to biological effects in the exposed tissue or organism. The physical quantities and units needed to describe the radiation are introduced here. Eventually, a broad range of biological effects of the different radiation types are addressed. This chapter concludes with a specific focus on the effects of low doses of radiation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Radiobiology Textbook
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	25-81
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031188107
ISBN (Print)	9783031188091
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18810-7_2
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2023

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Baeyens, A., Abrantes, A. M., Ahire, V., Ainsbury, E. A., Baatout, S., Baselet, B., Botelho, M. F., Boterberg, T., Chevalier, F., da Pieve, F., Delbart, W., Edin, N. F. J., Fernandez-Palomo, C., Geenen, L., Georgakilas, A. G., Heynickx, N., Meade, A. D., Michaelidesova, A. J., Mistry, D., ... Wozny, A.-S. (2023). Basic Concepts of Radiation Biology. In Radiobiology Textbook (pp. 25-81). (Radiobiology Textbook). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18810-7_2

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