Astronaut's organ doses inferred from measurements in a human phantom outside the international space station

Radiation Research

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 225-235

  Reitz, Guenther ^a,b   Berger, Thomas ^a   Bilski, Pawel ^c   Facius, Rainer ^a   Hajek, Michael ^d   Petrov, Vladislav ^b   Puchalska, Monika ^c   Zhou, Dazhuang ^m,n   Bossler, Johannes ^a   Akatov, Yury ^b   Shurshakov, Vyacheslav ^b   Olko, Pawel ^c   Ptaszkiewicz, Marta ^c   Bergmann, Robert ^d   Fugger, Manfred ^d   Vana, Norbert ^d   Beaujean, Rudolf ^e   Burmeister, Soenke ^e   Bartlett, David ^f   Hager, Luke ^f   Pálfalvi, Jozsef ^g   Szabó, Julianna ^g   O'Sullivan, Denis ^h   Kitamura, Hisashi ⁱ   Uchihori, Yukio ⁱ   Yasuda, Nakahiro ⁱ   Nagamatsu, Aiko ^j   Tawara, Hiroko ^k   Benton, Eric ^l   Gaza, Ramona ^l,m   McKeever, Stephen ^l   Sawakuchi, Gabriel ^l   Yukihara, Eduardo ^l   Cucinotta, Francis ^m   Semones, Edward ^m   Zapp, Neal ^m   Miller, Jack ^o   Dettmann, Jan ^p   more..

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^d TU WIEN   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^g KFKI ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^h DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^j JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^k HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^l OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^o LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^p EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMONAUT; DOSIMETRY; IONIZING RADIATION; MONITORING; ORGAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SKIN; SPACE FLIGHT; TRUNK;

COSMIC RADIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 59649103902     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR1559.1     Document Type: Article

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