Using plutonium excretion data to predict dose from chronic and acute exposures

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 179-186

  Krahenbuhl, M P ^a   Wilde, J L ^a   Slaughter, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLUTONIUM 239;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FISSION NEUTRON; HUMAN; LIVER; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKELETON; URINARY EXCRETION;

EID: 0034090661     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a032994     Document Type: Article

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