Deposition of charged particles on lung airways

Health Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 554-560

  Cohen, Beverly S ^a   Xiong, Judy Q ^a   Fang, Ching Ping ^a,b   Li, Wei ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Materials Research Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose; Human; Inhalation; Lungs; Organ; Radon progeny

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN; POLONIUM; RADIUM 226; RADON; RADON 222; RADON DAUGHTER; SILASTIC;

ADULT; AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INHALATION; LUNG DEPOSIT; MALE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SURFACE CHARGE;

EID: 0031897037     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199805000-00002     Document Type: Article

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