Improvements in routine internal monitoring - An overview of the IDEA project

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 125, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 472-476

  Schmitzer, Chris ^a   Fischer, H ^a   Andrasi, A ^d   Bouvier, C ^b   Carlan, L ^b   Franck, D ^b   Hollriegl V ^c   Li, W B ^c   Oeh, U ^c   Ritt, J ^b   Roth, P ^c   Wahl, W ^c   Zombori, P ^d  

^a ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

^b Institute de Radioprotection et de Securite Nucleaire   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d KFKI ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THORIUM; URANIUM; RADIOISOTOPE;

BIOASSAY; CALIBRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOCHEMISTRY; UNCERTAINTY; URINALYSIS; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOISOTOPES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 52249116621     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm170     Document Type: Conference Paper

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