Estimating the dose response relationship for occupational radiation exposure measured with minimum detection level

Health Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 397-404

  Xue, Xiaonan ^a   Shore, Roy E ^b   Ye, Xiangyang ^b   Kim, Mimi Y ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection limits; Dose assessment; Exposure, occupational; Monitoring, personnel

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; MEASUREMENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; SIMULATION; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILM DOSIMETER; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RISK; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

QUERCUS;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILM DOSIMETRY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RISK; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4644234598     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000133382.36334.ef     Document Type: Article

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