Intercomparison of retrospective radon detectors

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 905-910

  Field, R William ^a   Steck, Daniel J ^b   Parkhurst, Mary Ann ^c   Mahaffey, Judy A ^c   Alavanja, Michael C R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Global Business Leadership Department   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Dose response relationship (radiation); Epidemiologic methods; Epidemiologic studies; Lung neoplasms; Radon; Radon progeny; Smoking

Indexed keywords

LEAD 210; POLONIUM; RADON; RADON 222; RADON 222 DAUGHTER;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LUNG TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; SMOKING;

EID: 0032763978     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.99107905     Document Type: Article

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