Credibility of chernobyl thyroid doses exceeding 10 Gy based on in-vivo measurements of 131I in Belarus

Health Physics

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 180-187

  Shinkarev, Sergey M ^a   Voillequé, Paul G ^b   Gavrilin, Yury I ^a   Khrouch, Valery T ^a   Bouville, André ^c   Hoshi, Masaharu ^d   Meckbach, Reinhard ^e   Minenko, Victor F ^f   Ulanovsky, Alexander V ^e,g   Luckyanov, Nicholas ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b MJP Risk Assessment Inc   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^f Ministry of Health Republic of Belarus   (Belarus)

^g JOINT INSTITUTE FOR POWER AND NUCLEAR RESEARCH SOSNY   (Belarus)

Author keywords

131I; Chernobyl; Dose, internal; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BELARUS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE; MEASUREMENT; MILK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RELIABILITY; THYROID GLAND;

BYELARUS; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 38049161721     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000288044.73410.6b     Document Type: Article

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