Checking the foundation: Recent radiobiology and the linear no-threshold theory

Health Physics

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 747-758

  Ulsh, Brant A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

chromosome aberration; cytogenetics; health effects; linear hypothesis

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA DAMAGE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DNA DAMAGE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 78649536972     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3181e32477     Document Type: Review

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