Americium in the beagle dog: Biokinetic and dosimetric model

Health Physics

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 459-470

  Luciani, A ^a   Polig, E ^b   Lloyd, R D ^c   Miller, S C ^c  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

241Am; Biokinetics; Dogs; Skeleton

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM; PLUTONIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEAGLE DOG; BIOACCUMULATION; BODY BURDEN; BONE MARROW; BONE STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; DOSIMETRY; FECES ANALYSIS; LIVER; LIVER WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRABECULAR BONE; URINARY EXCRETION; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

AMERICIUM; ANIMALS; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOGS; KINETICS; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 33646361312     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000186998.03895.34     Document Type: Article

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