Biodosimetry Assessment Tool (BAT) software-dose prediction algorithms

Health Physics

Volumn 99, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2010, Pages

  Sandgren, David J ^a   Salter, Charles A ^a   Levine, Ira H ^a   Ross, James A ^a   Lillis Hearne, Patricia K ^a   Blakely, William F ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES RADIOBIOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

accident analysis; accidents; dose assessment; handling; Operational topics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RADIOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77958511014     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3181f0fe6c     Document Type: Article

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