The gender-specific chest wall thickness prediction equations for routine measurements of 239Pu and 241Am within the lungs using HPGE detectors

Health Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 346-357

  Vickers, L R ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

Author keywords

239Pu; 241Am; Contamination, internal; Lungs, human

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM 241; GERMANIUM; PLUTONIUM 239;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE; LUNG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; THORAX WALL;

ADULT; AGED; AMERICIUM; FEMALE; GERMANIUM; HEALTH PHYSICS; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLUTONIUM; RADIOMETRY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; THORAX;

EID: 0030041940     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199603000-00004     Document Type: Article

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