Low-dose risk assessment: Comments on the summary of the international workshop

Radiation Research

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 742-744

  Tubiana, M ^a   Arengo, A ^b   Averbeck, D ^c   Masse, R ^d  

^a Laboratoire d'Excellence Inflamex   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^d Academie des Technologies   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER THERAPY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; IONIZING RADIATION; LETTER; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; BODY BURDEN; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BODY BURDEN; CLINICAL TRIALS; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LINEAR MODELS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION, IONIZING; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34447526658     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR0917.1     Document Type: Letter

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