Daily intakes of 134Cs, 137Cs, 40K, 232Th, and 238U in Ukrainian adult males

Health Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 814-819

  Shiraishi, Kunio ^a   Tagami, Keiko ^a   Ban Nai, Tadaaki ^a   Yamamoto, Masayoshi ^b   Muramatsu, Yasuyuki ^a   Los, Ivan P ^c   Phedosenko, Galina V ^c   Korzun, Vitary N ^c   Tsigankov, Nikolay Y ^c   Segeda, Ilya I ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Res Center of Radiation Medicine   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Intake; Radionuclide; Thorium; Uranium

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; POTASSIUM 40; THORIUM 232; URANIUM 238; CESIUM; POTASSIUM; THALLIUM; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; DIETARY INTAKE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; UKRAINE; ADULT; DIET; GEOGRAPHY; MALE;

ADULT; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; DIET; FOOD CONTAMINATION, RADIOACTIVE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; POTASSIUM RADIOISOTOPES; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; UKRAINE; URANIUM;

EID: 0030612232     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199711000-00010     Document Type: Article

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