Raphael Gonen

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | bgu · Department of Biomedical Engineering

The dicentric chromosome assay (DCA), is considered the ‘gold standard’ for radiation biodosimetry. Yet, DCA, as currently implemented, may be impractical for emergency response applications, especially when time is of the essence, owing to its labor-intensive and time-consuming nature. The growth of a primary lymphocyte culture for 48 h in vitro i...

The dicentric chromosome assay (DCA), is considered the ‘gold standard’ for radiation biodosimetry. Yet, DCA, as currently implemented, may be impractical for emergency response applications, especially when time is of the essence, owing to its labor-intensive and time-consuming nature. The growth of a primary lymphocyte culture for 48h in-vitro is...

Many chromosome assays rely on the quantification of chromosome abnormalities in cells, and one important abnormality is the existence of more than one centromere for each chromosome. The quantification of such abnormalities has been studied before. However, this process is labor-intensive and time consuming. Thus, this assay is challenging for ex-...

Background: The prevalence and the role of AGG interruptions within the FMR1 gene in the normal population is unknown. In this study, we investigated the frequent of AGG loss, in one or two alleles within the normal population. The role of AGG in the FMR1 stability has been assessed by correlating AGG loss to the prevalence of premutation/full mut...

The main focus of this pilot study is to develop a statistical approach that is suitable to model data obtained by different detection methods. The methods used in this study examine the possibility to detect early breast cancer (BC) by exhaled breath and urine samples analysis. Exhaled breath samples were collected from 48 breast cancer patients a...

Two types of cyanobacteria of the genus Arthrospira (commonly known as Spirulina) were tested for biosorption of cerium(III) ions from aqueous solutions. An endemic type (ES) found in the northern Negev desert, Israel, and a commercial powder (CS) were used in this study. Biosorption was evaluated as a function of pH, contact time, initial metal co...

Inhalation is the main route of internal exposure to radioactive aerosols in the nuclear industry. To assess the radiation dose from the intake of these aerosols, it is necessary to know their physical (aerodynamic diameter distribution) and chemical (dissolution rate in extracellular lung fluid) characteristics. Air samples were taken from the ura...

For dose assessment of workers at Nuclear Research Center Negev exposed to natural uranium, spot urine samples are analysed and the results are normalised to 24-h urine excretion based on ‘standard’ man urine volume of 1.6 l d−1. In the present work, the urine volume, uranium level and creatinine concentration were determined in two or three 24-h u...

The Organic Bound Tritium (OBT) amount in the body may induce changes in the evaluation of the internal exposure to tritium, due to its different retention time relative to HTO. OBT measurements for urine are not performed routinely, mainly because of the lengthy work needed in preparation of the samples, when using the standard oxygen combustion m...

Tritium may accumulate in plants, organisms, or humans as organic bound tritium (OBT). Due to the longer retention time of OBT in the body relative to free tritium, evaluating the OBT contribution in the tritium dose estimation is of interest. The OBT content in urine can be determined by liquid scintillation counting (LSC). When using this method,...