Updates to astronaut radiation limits: Radiation risks for never-smokers

Radiation Research

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 102-114

  Cucinotta, Francis A ^a   Chappell, Lori J ^b  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b USRA Division of Space Life Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMONAUT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ASTRONAUTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SPACE FLIGHT;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 79959730217     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: 19385404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR2540.1     Document Type: Article

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