Experience with FISH-detected translocations as an indicator in retrospective dose reconstructions

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-49

  Pressl, S ^a   Romm, H ^a   Ganguly, B B ^b   Stephan, G ^a  

^a BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DICENTRIC CHROMOSOME; DNA CONTENT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SMOKING HABIT;

EID: 0034122505     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a033018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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