title: 'Fading times' required for apparently complete repair in irradiated tissues assuming the linear quadratic model of dose response.
abstract: The time required between well-separated pairs of doses of X-rays (e.g. 2F/day) for repairable damage to be apparently completed increases with dose per fraction and with the alpha/beta ratio, even when the underlying half-life is invariant.
mesh_terms: D004260:DNA Repair / Q000528:radiation effects*; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D013997:Time Factors