Biological dosimetry of chernobyl cleanup workers: Inclusion of data on age and smoking provides improved radiation dose estimates

Radiation Research

Volumn 152, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 655-664

  Moore II, Dan H ^a,b   Tucker, James D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0032763956     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3580261     Document Type: Article

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