Fig. 3
From: Time-dose reciprocity mechanism for the inactivation of Escherichia coli using X-ray irradiation
(a) Stochastic model in which the inactivation occurs by the hit of targets. Nij (t) is the number of bacteria where j targets are hit on the total number of i targets. λj, µj, and ν1 represent the hit rate, recovery rate, and replication rate, respectively. (b) Schematic of DNA inactivation. Γ0 represents the rate of linearly dose rate dependent term, Γ1 is the rate of the nonlinearly dose rate dependent term, and Γ2 is the rate of replication by binary fission at the Nij (t) state.
