Interactive RadioEpidemiological Program (IREP): A Web-based tool for estimating probability of causation/assigned share of radiogenic cancers

Health Physics

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 119-147

  Kocher, David C ^a   Apostoaei, A Iulian ^a   Henshaw, Russell W ^b   Hoffman, F Owen ^a   Schubauer Berigan, Mary K ^b   Stancescu, Daniel O ^c   Thomas, Brian A ^a   Trabalka, John R ^a   Gilbert, Ethel S ^d   Land, Charles E ^d  

^a SENES Oak Ridge Incorporated   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^c SRA International   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Dose reconstruction; Radiation risk; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; HEALTH PROGRAM; INTERACTIVE RADIOEPIDEMIOLOGICAL PROGRAM; INTERNET; IONIZING RADIATION; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; UNCERTAINTY; ALGORITHM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; POLLUTANT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (U.S.); NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 47149111610     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000291191.49583.f7     Document Type: Article

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