Dose reconstruction for an occupational cohort at the Savannah River nuclear facility: Evaluation of a hybrid method

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 188-197

  Hamra, Ghassan ^a   Nylander french, Leena A ^a   Richardson, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRITIUM;

ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKING TIME;

BODY BURDEN; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; TRITIUM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56749107688     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncn165     Document Type: Article

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