Energy deposition, cellular radiation effects and lung cancer risk by radon progeny alpha particles

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 99, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 453-456

  Hofmann, W ^a   Crawford Brown, D J ^b   Fakir, H ^c   Caswell, R S ^d   Cherubini, R ^e   Goodhead, D T ^e   Menzel, H G ^e   Ottolenghi, A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c IBN TOFAIL UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLONIUM; RADON; RADON DAUGHTER;

ALPHA RADIATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG CANCER; MITOSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE RADIATION; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAT; SECRETORY CELL; SPECTROMETRY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; INCIDENCE; LUNG TUMOR; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIATION INJURY; RISK FACTOR;

ALPHA PARTICLES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADON DAUGHTERS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0036023842     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006830     Document Type: Article

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