Dosimetric models used in the Alpha-Risk project to quantify exposure of uranium miners to radon gas and its progeny

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 101-106

  Marsh, James W ^a   Bessa, Y ^a   Birchall, A ^a   Blanchardon, E ^b   Hofmann, W ^c   Nosske, D ^d   Tomasek, L ^e  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^d BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL RADIATION PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; EUROPE; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MINER; MINING; NEOPLASM; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONALITY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MINING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADON; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; URANIUM;

EID: 52249089392     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncn119     Document Type: Article

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