Retrospective evaluation of 131I deposition density and thyroid dose in Poland after the Chernobyl accident

Health Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 698-708

  Pietrzak Flis, Zofia ^a   Krajewski, Pawel ^a   Radwan, Irena ^a   Muramatsu, Yasuyuki ^b  

^a Centralne Laboratorium Ochrony Radiologicznej Warsaw   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chernobyl; Fallout; Iodine; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CESIUM 137; IODINE; IODINE 129; IODINE 131; RAIN; CESIUM; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RADIOPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLOUT; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; HUMAN; INGESTION; INHALATION; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR REACTOR; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOIL ANALYSIS; THYROID CANCER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY BURDEN; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; EATING; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVALUATION; GEOGRAPHY; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SOIL POLLUTANT; STATISTICS; THYROID GLAND; UKRAINE;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; BODY BURDEN; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EATING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CONTAMINATION, RADIOACTIVE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLAND; POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIATION-PROTECTIVE AGENTS; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; THYROID GLAND; UKRAINE;

EID: 0038442725     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200306000-00002     Document Type: Article

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