Modeling lung cancer incidence in rats following exposure to radon progeny

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 122, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 345-348

  Hofmann, Werner ^a   Crawford Brown, D J ^b   Fakir, H ^a   Monchaux, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON; RADON DAUGHTER;

ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TARGET CELL; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INCIDENCE; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADON DAUGHTERS; RATS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 34347380932     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl492     Document Type: Article

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