Uncertainties of internal dose assessment for animals and plants due to non-homogeneously distributed radionuclides

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1449-1455

  Gomez Ros J M ^a   Prohl G ^b   Ulanovsky, A ^b   Lis, M ^a  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dose conversion coefficients; Internal exposure; Non homogeneous activity distribution; Reference organisms

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; RADIOMETRY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ABSORBED DOSE RATE; DOSE ASSESSMENTS; DOSE CONVERSION; ELSEVIER (CO); HOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; HOMOGENEOUSLY DISTRIBUTED; INTERNAL EXPOSURE; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; POINT SOURCES; RADIONUCLIDE DISTRIBUTION; WHOLE BODY (WB);

RADIOISOTOPES;

RADIOISOTOPE;

ANIMAL; ASSESSMENT METHOD; HOMOGENEITY; PLANT; RADIONUCLIDE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON; ENERGY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN; ORGANISM; PHOTON; PLANT; RAT; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; BODY BURDEN; PLANTS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOISOTOPES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 42149087100     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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