Measurement of the whole-body 137Cs in residents around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 326-329

  Morita, Naoko ^a   Takamura, Noboru ^a   Ashizawa, Kiyoto ^a   Shimasaki, Tatsuya ^a   Yamashita, Shunichi ^a   Okumura, Yutaka ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; CESIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BELARUS; BODY BURDEN; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UKRAINE; UNIVERSITY; WHOLE BODY COUNTER; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ADULT; BODY BURDEN; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RUSSIA; UKRAINE; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 19444370768     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch457     Document Type: Article

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