Microscopic dose to lung from inhaled alpha emitters in humans

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 127, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 23-26

  Diel, Joseph ^c   Belosokhov, Maxim ^a   Romanov, Sergey ^a   Guilmette, Raymond ^b  

^a Southern Urals Biophysics Institute   (Russian Federation)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLUTONIUM;

ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CLARA CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL TYPE 2; LUNG CANCER; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION HAZARD; AEROSOL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPOSURE; LUNG; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY;

AEROSOLS; ALPHA PARTICLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG; MICROCHEMISTRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 49649121802     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm338     Document Type: Article

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