What can we say about the dose-effect relationship at very low doses?

Journal of Radiological Protection

Volumn 22, Issue 3 A, 2002, Pages

  Chadwick, K H ^a   Leenhouts, H P ^b  

^a National Institute of Public Health and the Environment ^*

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

MALIGNANCY;

RADIATION PROTECTION;

ALPHA RADIATION; CANCER CELL; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EXPERIMENTATION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOBIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036743743     PISSN: 09524746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0952-4746/22/3A/314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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