Effective doses due to external irradiation from the Chernobyl accident for different population groups of Ukraine

Health Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 87-98

  Likhtariov, Ilya ^a   Kovgan, Lionella ^a   Novak, Dmitriy ^a   Vavilov, Sergey ^a   Jacob, Peter ^b   Paretzke, Herwig G ^b  

^a Res Center of Radiation Medicine   (Ukraine)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cesium; Chernobyl; exposure, radiation; gamma radiation

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; USSR;

EID: 0030069024     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199601000-00013     Document Type: Article

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