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THE increasing use in radiobiology of pulsed sources of radiation and very high dose rates makes it desirable to study the effects of this type of radiation on biological systems. This paper describes the differences in the survival of cells when exposed to radiation delivered in a single pulse or in two pulses.
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TOWN, C. Effect of High Dose Rates on Survival of Mammalian Cells. Nature 215, 847–848 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215847a0
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