Risk assessment after internal exposure to black sand from Camargue: Uptake and prospective dose calculation

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 127, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 64-67

  Frelon, Sandrine ^a   Chaze, Valérie ^a   Tourlonias, Elie ^a   Blanchardon, Eric ^a   Bouisset, Patrick ^a   Pourcelot, Laurent ^b   Paquet, François ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^b DEI/SESURE/LERCM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THORIUM; URANIUM; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FRANCE; IN VITRO STUDY; INTESTINE FLUID; LUNG FLUID; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAND; SIMULATION; SOLUBILITY; STOMACH JUICE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION MONITORING; RISK FACTOR; SOIL POLLUTANT; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; THORIUM; URANIUM; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 49649093168     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm252     Document Type: Article

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