CABAS: A freely available PC program for fitting calibration curves in chromosome aberration dosimetry

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-123

  Deperas, Joanna ^a,b   Szłuíska, Marta ^c   Deperas Kaminska, Marta ^b,d   Edwards, Alan ^c   Lloyd, David ^c   Lindholm, Carita ^e   Romm, Horst ^f   Roy, Laurence ^g   Moss, Raymond ^h   Morand, Josselin ^h   Wojcik, Andrzej ^a,d,h  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d JAN KOCHANOWSKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

^f BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

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

^h TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; INTERNET; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION RESPONSE;

EID: 37449016829     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm137     Document Type: Article

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