Implementation of ICP-MS protocols for uranium urinary measurements in worker monitoring

Health Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 455-461

  Baglan, Nicolas ^a   Cossonnet, Catherine ^b   Trompier, François ^b   Ritt, Jérôme ^b   Bérard, Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alpha; Excretion; Monitoring; Personnel; Spectrometry; Uranium; Urinary

Indexed keywords

UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM; URANIUM 235;

ACCURACY; ALPHA RADIATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONNEL RADIATION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCINTILLATION SPECTROMETRY; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL;

EID: 0032885764     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199910000-00014     Document Type: Article

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