Individual thyroid dose estimation for a case-control study of Chernobyl-related thyroid cancer among children of Belarus - Part I: 131I, short-lived radioiodines (13I, 133I, 135I), and short-lived radiotelluriums, (131MTe and 132 Te)

Health Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 565-585

  Gavrilin, Yuri ^a   Khrouch, Valeri ^a   Shinkarev, Sergey ^a   Drozdovitch, Vladimir ^b   Minenko, Victor ^c   Shemiakina, Elena ^d   Ulanovsky, Alexander ^d   Bouville, André ^e   Anspaugh, Lynn ^f   Voillequé, Paul ^g   Luckyanov, Nickolas ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^c Rep Sci/Pract Ctr Radiat Med   (Belarus)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g MJP Risk Assessment Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chernobyl; Children; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; IODINE 132; IODINE 133; IODINE 135; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RADIOISOTOPE; TELLURIUM 131; TELLURIUM 132; TELLURIUM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BELARUS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; THYROID CANCER; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; BODY BURDEN; BYELARUS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TELLURIUM; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UKRAINE;

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EID: 2442655264     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200406000-00002     Document Type: Article

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