Predictability of acute radiation injury severity

Health Physics

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 255-263

  Azizova, Tamara V ^a   Osovets, Sergey V ^a   Day, Richard D ^b   Druzhinina, Maria B ^a   Sumina, Margarita V ^a   Pesternikova, Valentina S ^a   Teplyakov, Igor I ^a   Zhang, Aimin ^b   Kuniak, Michael ^b   Vasilenko, Evgeny K ^c   Wald, Niel ^b   Slaughter, David M ^d   Okladnikova, Nadezhda D ^a   Schall, Laura Cassidy ^e  

^a Southern Urals Biophysics Institute   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MAYAK PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidents, nuclear; Dose assessment; Exposure, radiation; Health effects

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; GAMMA RADIATION; HEADACHE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NEUTRON RADIATION; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION SICKNESS; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SYMPTOM; TACHYCARDIA; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVALUATION; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIATION INJURIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RUSSIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 41049091534     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000290833.66789.df     Document Type: Article

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