Tables of dose conversion coefficients for estimating internal and external radiation exposures to terrestrial and aquatic biota

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-203

  Ulanovsky, A ^a   Prohl G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; DOSE CONVERSION COEFFICIENTS (DCC); HOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; REFERENCE ANIMALS;

ANIMALS; CONTAMINATION; DOSIMETRY; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOISOTOPES; SOILS;

MICROORGANISMS;

RADIOISOTOPE;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; DOSE CONVERSION COEFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXTERNAL EXPOSURE; HABITAT; INTERNAL EXPOSURE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; THICKNESS; WATER IMMERSION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY BURDEN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; REFERENCE VALUES; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 42149146668     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-008-0159-y     Document Type: Article

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