Age dependence of natural uranium and thorium concentrations in bone

Health Physics

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 119-126

  Larivière, Dominic ^a   Packer, Ana Paula ^a   Marro, Leonora ^b   Li, Chunsheng ^a   Chen, Jing ^a   Cornett, R Jack ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dose assessment; Modeling; Skeleton; Thorium; Uranium

Indexed keywords

THORIUM; URANIUM;

AGE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BONE; BONE TURNOVER; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGING; BACKGROUND RADIATION; BODY BURDEN; BONE AND BONES; CANADA; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; THORIUM; URANIUM;

EID: 33846223473     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000237665.63377.8f     Document Type: Article

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