Using animal thyroids as ultra-sensitive biomonitors for environmental radioiodine

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 12890-12894

  Steinhauser, Georg ^a,b   Merz, Stefan ^a   Kübber Heiss, Anna ^c   Katzlberger, Christian ^d  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^d AUSTRIAN AGENCY FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; AIR SAMPLERS; ARID ENVIRONMENTS; AUSTRIA; BIOMONITORS; COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATIES; DRY CONDITION; HUNGARY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS; ON-SITE INSPECTION; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; RADIOIODINE;

NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

ANIMALS;

IODINE 131;

AIR SAMPLING; ANIMAL; ARID ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; IODIDE; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIONUCLIDE; VOLUME;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; DESERT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUNGARY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THYROID GLAND;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HALF-LIFE; HUNGARY; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; THYROID GLAND;

AUSTRIA; HUNGARY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84870563399     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303280g     Document Type: Article

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