Electron paramagnetic resonance dosimetry for a large-scale radiation incident

Health Physics

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 255-267

  Swartz, Harold M ^a   Flood, Ann Barry ^a   Williams, Benjamin B ^a   Dong, Ruhong ^a   Swarts, Steven G ^b   He, Xiaoming ^a   Grinberg, Oleg ^a   Sidabras, Jason ^c   Demidenko, Eugene ^a   Gui, Jiang ^a   Gladstone, David J ^a   Jarvis, Lesley A ^a   Kmiec, MacIej M ^a   Kobayashi, Kyo ^a   Lesniewski, Piotr N ^a   Marsh, Stephen D P ^b   Matthews, Thomas P ^d   Nicolalde, Roberto J ^a   Pennington, Patrick M ^a   Raynolds, Timothy ^a   Salikhov, Ildar ^a   Wilcox, Dean E ^e   Zaki, Bassem I ^a   more..

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident analysis; Accidents; Dosimetry; Health effects; nuclear

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICS; METHODOLOGY; NAIL; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOMETRY; TOOTH;

ARTIFACTS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; NAILS; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RADIOMETRY; TOOTH; TRIAGE;

EID: 84864856581     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3182588d92     Document Type: Article

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