Influences of parameter uncertainties within the ICRP-66 respiratory tract model: A parameter sensitivity analysis

Health Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 553-566

  Huston, Thomas E ^a,b   Farfán, Eduardo B ^a   Bolch, W Emmett ^a   Bolch, Wesley E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Nuclear Safety Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Biokinetics; Biological factors; Inhalation; Modeling; Respiratory system

Indexed keywords

PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CLEARANCE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DENSITY; DENSITY FUNCTION; LATIN HYPERCUBE TECHNIQUE; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG DOSE UNCERTAINTY CODE; LUNG INTERSTITIUM; LUNG VENTILATION; MODEL; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARAMETER; PARAMETER DENSITY FUNCTION; PARAMETER SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; PARTICLE RADIATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PUBLICATION; RADIATION DOSE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT MODEL; SECRETORY CELL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLOW PHASE ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION; AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0142214722     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200311000-00003     Document Type: Article

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