Biological dosimetry of radiation workers at the Sellafield nuclear facility

Radiation Research

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 216-226

  Tucker, James D ^a   Tawn, E Janet ^b   Holdsworth, Duncan ^a,f   Morris, Stephen ^c   Langlois, Richard ^a   Ramsey, Marilyn J ^a   Kato, Paula ^a   Boice Jr , John D ^d,g   Tarone, Robert E ^d   Jensen, Ronald H ^e  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WESTLAKES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c SELLAFIELD LTD   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f STARSHIP CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^g INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DOSIMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURVIVAL RATE;

CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ERYTHROCYTES; FILM DOSIMETRY; GLYCOPHORIN; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR WARFARE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION, IONIZING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030772013     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579605     Document Type: Article

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