Radiation Risks and Dirty Bombs

Health Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Ring, Joseph P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exposure, radiation; Operational topic; Radiation risk; Weapons

Indexed keywords

DEVICE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; REVIEW; SMOKING; TERRORISM;

EID: 1642454813     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200402001-00013     Document Type: Review

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