Comparison of radon lung dosimetry models for the estimation of dose uncertainties

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 127, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 27-30

  Winkler Heil, Renate ^a   Hofmann, Werner ^a   Marsh, James ^b   Birchall, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; MINER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREDICTION; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; STOCHASTIC MODEL; AEROSOL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; EXPOSURE; LUNG; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

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

EID: 49649095940     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm339     Document Type: Article

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