Chemical process based reconstruction of exposures for an epidemiological study. I. Theoretical and methodological issues

Chemico-Biological Interactions

Volumn 166, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 254-263

  Esmen, Nurtan A ^a   Hall, Thomas A ^b   Phillips, Margaret L ^b   Marsh, Gary M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Exposure reconstruction; Occupational epidemiology; Source receptor models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROCESS MODEL; THEORETICAL SAMPLE; VAPOR;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33947115064     PISSN: 00092797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2006.08.009     Document Type: Article

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