Six-year follow-up of an acute 241Am inhalation intake

Health Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 576-581

  Kathren, Ronald L ^a   Lynch, Timothy P ^b   Traub, Richard J ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

241Am; Biokinetics; Inhalation; Lungs, human

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM 241;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPARTMENT MODEL; FOLLOW UP; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; INHALATION; LIVER; LUNG; LUNG CLEARANCE; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIOACTIVITY; SKELETON;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; AMERICIUM; BONE AND BONES; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LIVER; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 0037403756     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200305000-00002     Document Type: Article

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