Dose contribution from metabolized organically bound tritium after acute tritiated water intakes in humans

Health Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 579-586

  Trivedi, A ^a   Galeriu, D ^a,b   Richardson, R B ^a  

^a ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC PHYSICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Food chain; Tritium; Water

Indexed keywords

TRITIUM OXIDE;

ARTICLE; BODY WATER; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD CHAIN; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION PROTECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION;

TRITIUM;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BODY WATER; DRINKING; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TRITIUM; WATER;

EID: 0030987633     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199710000-00001     Document Type: Article

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