CFD as a tool in risk assessment of inhaled radon progenies

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 122, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 537-539

  Farkas, Árpád ^a,b   Hofmann, Werner ^b   Balásházy, Imre ^a   Szoke, István ^a  

^a KFKI ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; RADON; URANIUM; RADON DAUGHTER;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; INHALATION; LUNG LOBE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION INJURY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOMETRY; RADON DAUGHTERS; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 34347389497     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl399     Document Type: Article

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