Current status of biodosimetry based on standard cytogenetic methods

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 567-581

  De Lemos Pinto, Marcela Maria Pereira ^a   Santos, Neyliane Frassinetti Gonçalves ^a   Amaral, Ademir ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; BIODOSIMETRY; BIOLOGICAL DOSIMETRY; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; CURRENT STATUS; DICENTRICS; DOSE ASSESSMENTS; DOSE LEVELS; GOLD STANDARDS; INDIVIDUAL DOSE; MITOGENS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION WORKERS;

DAMAGE DETECTION; DOSIMETRY; IONIZING RADIATION; RADIATION SHIELDING; STANDARDS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE RADIATION SYNDROME; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CYTOGENETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LYMPHOCYTE; METHODOLOGY; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MITOSIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY; REVIEW;

ACUTE RADIATION SYNDROME; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES; CYTOGENETICS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LYMPHOCYTES; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MITOSIS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 78649321892     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-010-0311-3     Document Type: Review

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