External radiation doses from 137Cs to frog phantoms in a wetland area: In situ measurements and dose model calculations

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 481-489

  Stark, K ^a   Pettersson, H B L ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT TOOLS; CONVERSION COEFFICIENTS; EXTERNAL RADIATIONS; IN-SITU; MODEL CALCULATIONS; RADIATION DOSES; RADIO-NUCLIDES; SENSITIVE SKINS; SOIL SAMPLES; STUDY SITES; US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGIES; WETLAND AREAS;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; CESIUM; CONTAMINATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC LINES; RADIOISOTOPES; RISK MANAGEMENT; SKIN; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; WETLANDS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

CARBON; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; BIOTA; DOSIMETRY; FROG; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BODY BURDEN; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RANIDAE; SWEDEN; UKRAINE; WETLANDS;

ANURA;

EID: 54049122923     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-008-0185-9     Document Type: Article

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