A step-by-step procedure to aid the assessment of intake and doses from measurement data

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 491-508

  Marsh, James W ^a   Bailey, Michael R ^a   Birchall, Alan ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM 241; AMERICIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CASE REPORT; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EXCRETION; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONNEL RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVITY; URINALYSIS; ALGORITHM; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AMERICIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 25144467522     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch495     Document Type: Article

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