Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 86, Issue 3 , Pages 354-360 , March 2008

Tissue oxygenation in a murine SCC VII tumor after X-ray irradiation as determined by EPR spectroscopy

  • Hirotada Fujii

      Affiliations

    • School of Health Sciences and
    • ,
  • Koh-ichi Sakata

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan
    • ,
  • Yoshihiro Katsumata

      Affiliations

    • Graduate Program of Human Sensing and Functional Sensor Engineering, and
    • ,
  • Rikiya Sato

      Affiliations

    • Graduate Program of Human Sensing and Functional Sensor Engineering, and
    • ,
  • Makoto Kinouchi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Bio-System Engineering, Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Japan
    • ,
  • Masanori Someya

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan
    • ,
  • Shin-ichiro Masunaga

      Affiliations

    • Particle Radiation Oncology Research Center, Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Masato Hareyama

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan
    • ,
  • Harold M. Swartz

      Affiliations

    • EPR Center for Viable Systems, Department of Radiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
    • ,
  • Hiroshi Hirata

      Affiliations

    • Graduate Program of Human Sensing and Functional Sensor Engineering, and
    • Department of Electrical Engineering, Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Hiroshi Hirata, Department of Electrical Engineering, Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Yamagata 992-8510, Japan.

Received 3 July 2007 ,Revised 19 November 2007 ,Accepted 19 November 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.11.020

Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 86, Issue 3 , Pages 354-360 , March 2008

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