Effect of inhomogeneous activity distributions and airway geometry on cellular doses in radon lung dosimetry

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 127, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 68-72

  Szóke, István ^a   Balásházy, Imre ^a   Farkas, Árpád ^a   Hofmann, Werner ^b  

^a KFKI ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLONIUM; RADON;

ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOACTIVITY; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; AEROSOL; ANISOTROPY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LUNG; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

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

EID: 49649119478     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm253     Document Type: Article

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