Does scientific evidence support a change from the lnt model for low-dose radiation risk extrapolation?

Health Physics

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 493-504

  Averbeck, Dietrich ^a  

^a Centre Universitaire   (France)

Author keywords

Linear hypothesis; National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements; Radiation, ionizing; Radiation, low level

Indexed keywords

BYSTANDER EFFECT; CELL CYCLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROMETRY; IONIZING RADIATION; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SCIENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HEALTH; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 70350395466     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3181b08a20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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