Threshold and other departures from linear-quadratic curvature in the non-cancer mortality dose-response curve in the Japanese atomic bomb survivors

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 67-75

  Little, Mark P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; JAPAN; LIFESPAN; MORTALITY; RADIATION DOSE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 4143148447     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-004-0244-9     Document Type: Article

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