Statistical criteria to establish bioassay programs

Health Physics

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 333-338

  Lopez Fidalgo, Jesus ^a   Sanchez, Guillermo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b Enusa Industrias Avanzadas SA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Air sampling; Biokinetics; Intake, radionuclide; Modeling, biological factors

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; RADIOISOTOPE; URANIUM 234; URANIUM 235; URANIUM 238;

AEROSOL; AIR MONITOR; AIR MONITORING; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CALCULATION; CURVE FITTING; HUMAN; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORKROOM AIR;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOISOTOPES; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 25144492204     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200510000-00005     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Abu-Dayya AA, Beaulieu NC. Outage probabilities in the presence of correlated log-normal interferers. IEEE Trans Veh Technol 43:164-173; 1994.
2. Cardieri P, Rappaport TS. Statistical analysis of cochannel interference in wireless communications systems. Wirel Commun Mob Comput 1:111-121; 2001.
3. Fenton LF. The sum of log-normal probability distributions in scatter transmission systems. IRE Trans on Communications Systems 8:57-67; 1960.
4. Ho C-L. Calculating the mean and variance of power sums with two log-normal components. IEEE Trans Veh Technol 44:756-762; 1995.
5. International Commission on Radiological Protection. 1990 recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection. Oxford: Elsevier Ltd.; ICRP Publication 60; 1991.
6. International Commission on Radiological Protection. Individual monitoring for internal exposure of workers. Oxford: Pergamon Press; ICRP Publication 78; 1997.
7. International Commission on Radiological Protection. ICRP Database of Dose Coefficients: Workers and Members of the Public. Version 2.0.1 (CD-ROM). Oxford: Pergamon Press; ICRP; 2001.
8. Kercher JR, Robison WL. Uncertainties in predicted radionuclide body burdens doses from discrete stochastic source terms. Health Phys 65:47-68; 1993.
9. Kramer GH, Hauck BM, Allen SA, Dantas BM, Dantas AL, Azeredo A. Lung counting: summing techniques to reduce the MDA. Health Phys 85:220-227; 2003.
10. Potter CA. Intake retention fractions developed from models used in the determination of dose coefficients developed for ICRP Publication 68-Particulate inhalation. Health Phys 83:594-789; 2002.
11. Sanchez G. BIOKMOD: A Mathematica toolbox for modeling biokinetic systems. Mathematica in Education and Research 10:50-70; 2005.
12. Sanchez G, Lopez-Fidalgo J. Mathematical techniques for solving analytically large compartmental systems. Health Phys 85:184-193; 2003.
13. Schwartz S, Yeh YS. On the distribution function and moments of power sums with log-normal components. Bell Syst Tech J 61:1441-1462; 1982.
14. Skrable KW, Chabot GE, French CS, La Bone TR. Intake retention functions and their applications to bioassay and the estimation of internal radiation doses. Health Phys 55:933-950; 1988.
15. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Acceptable concepts, models, equations, and assumptions for a bioassay program. NRC: Washington; Regulatory Guide 8.9, Revision 1; 1993. Available at: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc- collections/reg-guides/occupational-health/active. Accessed 14 September 2004.