Implications of the space radiation environment for human exploration in deep space

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 115, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 44-50

  Townsend, Lawrence W ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BLEEDING; CATARACT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMONAUT; DEATH; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIATION SICKNESS; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; STATISTICS; VOMITING;

ASTRONAUTS; BODY BURDEN; COSMIC RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 30844447654     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci141     Document Type: Article

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