Transfer of polonium, neptunium, plutonium and americium to the primate fetus

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 79, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 303-306

  Paquet, F ^a   Poncy, J L ^b   Ham, G J ^c   Prosser, S L ^c   Harrison, J D ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^b CEA DIF   (France)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM 241; CITRIC ACID; NEPTUNIUM 237; PLUTONIUM; POLONIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BABOON; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FETUS; GUINEA PIG; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PRIMATE; RAT; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

EID: 0031696820     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a032415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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