Estimating individual thyroid doses for a case-control study of childhood thyroid cancer in Bryansk Oblast, Russia

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-160

  Stepanenko, V F ^a   Voilleque P G ^b   Gavrilin, Yu I ^c   Khrouch, V T ^c   Shinkarev, S M ^c   Orlov, M Yu ^a   Kondrashov, A E ^a   Petin, D V ^a   Iaskova, E K ^a   Tsyb, A F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b MJP Risk Assessment Inc   (United States)

^c N N BLOKHIN NATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER OF ONCOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; IODINE 131; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RADIOISOTOPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIETARY INTAKE; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FISSION NEUTRON; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MILK; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTHER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; REFERENCE VALUE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THYROID CANCER; THYROID GLAND; VEGETATION;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MILK; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; POWER PLANTS; RADIOMETRY; RUSSIA; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UKRAINE;

EID: 12144287698     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch017     Document Type: Article

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