Dosimetry of an incident involving 14C

Health Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 418-424

  Kramer, G H ^a   Badreddine, A ^b   Tran, T ^c   Meyerhof, D ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b Ctr de Radioprotection et de Srete   (Algeria)

^c MDS Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

14C; Contamination, internal; Detector, phoswich; Metabolism

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LUNG CLEARANCE; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; URINARY EXCRETION;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; BARIUM; BODY BURDEN; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CARBONATES; HUMANS; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; URINE;

EID: 0030062749     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199603000-00013     Document Type: Article

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