Conventional radiation-biological dosimetry using frequencies of unstable chromosome aberrations

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 404, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 97-100

  Ramalho, Adriana T ^a   Costa, Maria Lúcia P ^a   Oliveira, Monica S ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chromosomal aberration; Lymphocyte lifetime; Radiological accident

Indexed keywords

CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOGENETICS; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; BRAZIL; CALIBRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 0032480046     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(98)00099-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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