The estimation of absorbed dose rates for non-human biota: An extended intercomparison

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 231-251

  Vives I Batlle, J ^a   Beaugelin Seiller, K ^b   Beresford, N A ^c   Copplestone, D ^f   Horyna, J ^h   Hosseini, A ^d   Johansen, M ⁱ   Kamboj, S ^e   Keum, D K ^j   Kurosawa, N ^k   Newsome, L ^g   Olyslaegers, G ^a   Vandenhove, H ^a   Ryufuku, S ^k   Vives Lynch, S ^l   Wood, M D ^m   Yu, C ^e  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d NORWEGIAN RADIATION PROTECTION AUTHORITY   (Norway)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^g ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^h State Office for Nuclear Safety   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^j Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

^k Ibaraki Quantum Beam Research Center   (Japan)

^l Vijftien Kapellekens 4   (Belgium)

^m UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE RATE; BODY SIZES; CALCULATION METHODS; DISCRETE ENERGIES; DOSE CONVERSION; DOSE RATE; EXTERNAL EXPOSURE; INTEGRATION ALGORITHM; INTERCOMPARISONS; INTERNAL EXPOSURE; INTRINSIC DIFFERENCES; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; ROUNDING ERRORS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION; WHOLE-BODY;

ANIMALS; RADIOLOGY;

RADIOISOTOPES;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; PLEURONECTIFORMES; RATTUS;

RADIOISOTOPE;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY BURDEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUCK; FLATFISH; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; RAT; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ABSORPTION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUCKS; FLATFISHES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLIGOCHAETA; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RATS; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79955698677     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-010-0346-5     Document Type: Article

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