The use of track registration detectors to reconstruct contemporary and historical airborne radon (222RN) and radon progeny concentrations for a radon-lung cancer epidemiologic study

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 31, Issue 1-6, 1999, Pages 401-406

  Steck, D J ^a   Field, R W ^b  

^a Global Business Leadership Department   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose; Epidemiology; Glass, surface activity; Implanted activity; Lung cancer; Radon; Radon progeny; Retrospective

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GLASS; HEALTH RISKS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LUNG CANCER; RADON PROGENCY; TRACK REGISTRATION DETECTOR;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 0032590686     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(99)00111-0     Document Type: Article

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