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Date of this Version

January 1990

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Published in Appl. Radial. Isot. 41:6 (1990), pp. 563-567; formerly Int. J. Radiat. Appl. Instrum. Part A Copyright © 1990 Pergamon Press plc. Used by permission. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09698043

Abstract

In radiobiology the term cross section is used in ways that depart from its original physical meaning. Some of these conceptual extensions represent significant distortions of the original concept. These distortions lead to the misinterpretation of experimental findings.

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