Determination of 240Pu/239Pu isotopic ratios in human tissues collected from areas around the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site by sector-field high resolution ICP-MS

Health Physics

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 291-299

  Yamamoto, M ^a   Oikawa, S ^a   Sakaguchi, A ^a   Tomita, J ^a   Hoshi, M ^b   Apsalikov, K N ^c  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Kazakh Science Research Institute for Radiation Medicine and Ecology   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Atomic bomb; Lungs, human; Plutonium; Radiation, atmospheric

Indexed keywords

PLUTONIUM 240; PLUTONIUM DIOXIDE PU 239; PLUTONIUM;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; AUTOPSY; BONE TISSUE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NUCLEAR SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOCHEMISTRY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEMIPALATINSK NUCLEAR TEST SITE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ATOMIC WARFARE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; KAZAKHSTAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; VISCERA;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; KAZAKHSTAN; NUCLEAR WARFARE; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; VISCERA;

EID: 51549113237     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000314807.29873.71     Document Type: Article

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