Anomalously high excretion of Pu in urine following inhalation of plutonium nitrate?

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 105, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 321-324

  Etherington, George ^a   Stradling, G N ^a   Hodgson, A ^a   Fifield, L K ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLUTONIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHALATION; LIVER METABOLISM; LUNG; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREDICTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; URINARY EXCRETION; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 0141633007     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006248     Document Type: Article

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