Patent ID: 9709551
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: A61B,G01N

Claim:
1. A method of determining a patient's of a selected species sensitivity to damage by the exposure of the patient to low dose ionizing radiation (LDIR) comprising: a) isolating and growing progenitor cells in vitro from each of a plurality of individuals of the same species as the patient; b) exposing each of the individual's isolated and grown cells to the same one or more dose of LDIR; c) evaluating the effect of the same one or more dose of LDIR on each of the isolated individual's cells by determining for each of the isolated individual's cells at least one of the change in at least one of the group consisting of proliferation and differentiation; d) arranging the evaluations from a lowest effect to highest effect on each individual to produce a range wherein the highest effect correlates with those individuals most sensitive to LDIR and the lowest effect with those individuals least sensitive to LDIR; e) collecting the evaluations in a database; f) isolating and growing progenitor cells from the patient; g) exposing the isolated and grown patient cells to the same one or more dose of LDIR as the individuals on the database; h) evaluating the effect of the LDIR on the isolated patient cells by measuring the change in at least one of the group consisting of proliferation and differentiation of the patient cells; i) comparing the results of the patient cell evaluation with the evaluation arrangement in the database to determine which of the plurality of individual's result is most like the patient's; and j) advising the patient of their sensitivity to LDIR based on the comparison wherein the more like other individuals who are more sensitive, the more sensitive they will be to the effect of LDIR.