Influence of radionuclides distributed in the whole body on the thyroid dose estimates obtained from direct thyroid measurements made in Belarus after the Chernobyl accident

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 405-418

  Ulanovsky, A ^a,b   Drozdovitch, V ^b,c   Bouville, A ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR POWER AND NUCLEAR RESEARCH SOSNY   (Belarus)

^c INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; IODINE 131; RADIOISOTOPE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BELARUS; CALIBRATION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; HALF LIFE TIME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RELIABILITY; THYROID GLAND; TIME; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ADOLESCENT; BYELARUS; CALIBRATION; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; KINETICS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOMETRY; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; THYROID GLAND; TIME FACTORS; UKRAINE; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 12344291298     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch410     Document Type: Article

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