In vivo EPR dosimetry to quantify exposures to clinically significant doses of ionising radiation

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 120, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 163-170

  Swartz, Harold M ^a   Iwasaki, Akinori ^a   Walczak, Tadeusz ^a   Demidenko, Eugene ^a   Salikhov, Ildar ^a   Khan, Nadeem ^a   Lesniewski, Piotr ^a   Thomas, Jerry ^b   Romanyukha, Alex ^b   Schauer, David ^b   Starewicz, Piotr ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Resonance Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATOMIC WARFARE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; EMERGENCY CARE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; IONIZING RADIATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION RESPONSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECTROSCOPY; TERRORISM;

BODY BURDEN; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOISOTOPES; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOOTH;

EID: 33749853977     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci554     Document Type: Article

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