Uncertainties in thyroid dose reconstruction after Chernobyl

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 105, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 601-608

  Likhtarev, I ^a   Minenko, V ^b   Khrouch, V ^c   Bouville, A ^d  

^a Radiation Protection Institute   (Austria)

^b Research Institute of Radiation Medicine   (Belarus)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ARTICLE; BELARUS; CANCER CENTER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; EATING HABIT; GAMMA RADIATION; GEOMETRY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION MONITORING; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THYROID CANCER; UKRAINE;

EID: 0141563722     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006310     Document Type: Article

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