Radiation dose prediction using data on time to emesis in the case of nuclear terrorism

Radiation Research

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 310-319

  Demidenko, Eugene ^a,b   Williams, Benjamin B ^b   Swartz, Harold M ^b  

^a Section of Biostatistics and Epidemiology   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; TERRORISM; VOMITING;

DECISION MAKING; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERRORISM; TIME FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY; VOMITING;

EID: 61849141194     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR1552.1     Document Type: Article

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