<i>Bacillus subtilis</i> spores inactivated by short pulses of soft X-rays in the water window
The study confirms that soft X-rays in the water window range are highly effective in rapidly inactivating bacterial spores. The efficiency is attributed to the spectral region's short attenuation lengths and high absorption cross-sections, aligning with data from conventional ionizing sources.
Authors
- Łukasz Węgrzyński (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1532-0459)
- Martin Přeček (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5790-5543)
- L. Juha (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4189-8753)
- Adam Lech (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9599-0649)
- Luděk Vyšín (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8549-0859)
- Daniela Krajčíková (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4024-2384)
- Henryk Fiedorowicz
- Przemyslaw Wachulak
- Imrich Barák
- Martin Černík
- Andrzej Bartnik
Institutions
- Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK)
- Military University of Technology in Warsaw (PL)
- Extreme Light Infrastructure Beamlines (CZ)
- Institute of Molecular Biology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK)
- FZU ‒ Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CZ)
- Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Radiation Biology
- Published
- 2026-01-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09553002.2025.2608750
- Primary Topic
- Radiation Effects and Dosimetry
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00