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Also known as Radiation Tolerance

Radioresistance is the level of ionizing radiation that organisms are able to withstand.

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Contents
  • Induced radioresistance
  • Inheritance of radioresistance
  • Evolution of radioresistance
  • Radioresistance in radiation oncology
  • Radioresistance comparison
  • See also
  • Notes and references
  • Further reading

Radioresistance is the level of ionizing radiation that organisms are able to withstand.

Ionizing-radiation-resistant organisms (IRRO) were defined as organisms for which the dose of acute ionizing radiation (IR) required to achieve 90% reduction (D10) is greater than 1,000 gray (Gy)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “radioresistance” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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