Increased indoor thoron concentrations and implication to inhalation dosimetry

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 127, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 73-78

  Tschiersch, J ^a   Li, W B ^a   Meisenberg, O ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD 212; RADON 220; RADON;

ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; DOSIMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HALF LIFE TIME; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RESIDENTIAL AREA; AEROSOL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; LUNG; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADON; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 45449092433     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm341     Document Type: Article

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