Linear-no-threshold is a radiation-protection standard rather than a mechanistic effect model

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 257-260

  Breckow, Joachim ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE MITTELHESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISKS; IONIZING RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STANDARDS;

DOSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIP; LINEAR-NO-THRESHOLD (LNT); MECHANISTIC EFFECT MODEL;

RADIATION PROTECTION;

ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LEUKEMIA; LINEAR NO THRESHOLD; NONHUMAN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLID TUMOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BODY BURDEN; CLINICAL TRIALS; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LINEAR MODELS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION, IONIZING; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33644660010     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-006-0030-y     Document Type: Article

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