Use of subjective and nonsubjective methodologies to evaluate lens radiation damage in exposed populations - An overview

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 137-144

  Worgul, Basil V ^a   Kundiev, Yuri ^b   Likhtarev, Ilia ^c   Sergienko, Nikolai ^d   Wegener, Alfred ^e   Medvedovsky, Cecily P ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Institute for Labour Medicine   (Ukraine)

^c Res Center of Radiation Medicine   (Ukraine)

^d Eye Microsurgery Center   (Ukraine)

^e Abt f Experimentelle O   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATARACTOGENESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; RADIATION CATARACT; REVIEW; SLIT LAMP;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

CATARACT; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS;

EID: 0029836335     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004110050022     Document Type: Review

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