Report from the Techa River Dosimetry review Workshop held on 8-10 December 2003 at the State Research Centre Institute of Biophysics, Moscow, Russia

Health Physics

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 97-113

  Balonov, Mikhail ^a   Alexakhin, Rudolf ^b   Bouville, André ^c   Liljinzin, Jan Olov ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b RUSSIAN INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGY AND AGROECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Contamination, environmental; Dose assessment; Health effects; Modeling, dose assessment

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CESIUM 137; LANTHANUM; NIOBIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; RHODIUM; RUTHENIUM; STRONTIUM 90; ZIRCONIUM; FRESH WATER; PLUTONIUM;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIOACCUMULATION; BONE MARROW; CANCER RISK; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PHYSICS; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLID TUMOR; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER SAMPLING; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICS; WATER POLLUTION;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, RADIATION-INDUCED; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RUSSIA; WATER POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 33644822268     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000175628.64637.8c     Document Type: Conference Paper

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