Radiation biology. Radioecology
ISSN: 0869-8031

Archives → 2018 → Vol. 58, No. 2 → pp. 214-221

Article

Methodological Support of Radiobiological Experiments on the "Panorama" Facility

Lichagin A.A.¹, Ulyanenko S.E.¹, Koryakin S.N.¹, Ulyanenko L.N.¹, Chernukha A.E.¹, Pugachev R.M.¹, Brovin A.I.¹

¹ A. Tsyb Medical Radiological Research Centre - branch of the National Medical Research Radiological Centre of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Obninsk, Russia

Abstract

The methodological and practical support of the experiments aimed at investigating the effects of low dose irradiation (≤ 200 mGy) at low dose rates (≤ 0.1 mGy /min) on living objects is highly important. The «Panorama» facility (¹³⁷Cs γ-radiation with energy of 661.66 keV) is useful for long-term experiments with a number of absorbed doses for different dose rates (from 1.5 mGy/min to 0.002 µGy/min). The «Panorama» allows one to conduct studies both in vitro and in vivo without changing the usual conditions for the existence of organisms; to investigate the effects of irradiation on the objects of complex ecosystems and on the entire populations of organisms during the development phase; to study the modifying factors of different nature influencing the response formation. Such studies have not only scientific but also practical outcome.