Cancer risk above 1 Gy and the impact for space radiation protection

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 202-209

  Schneider, Uwe ^a,b   Walsh, Linda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Radiotherapy   (Switzerland)

^c BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mars missions; Radiation induced cancer; Space flight; Space radiation protection

Indexed keywords

BOMBS (ORDNANCE); DISEASES; GAMMA RAYS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY; SPACE FLIGHT;

DOSE RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; EFFECTIVENESS FACTOR; LONG-TERM MISSION; MANNED SPACE MISSION; MARS MISSIONS; RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION-INDUCED CANCER; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

NEUTRON IRRADIATION;

EID: 67349164288     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2009.03.026     Document Type: Article

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