Thyroid dose estimates for a cohort of belarusian children exposed to radiation from the chernobyl accident

Radiation Research

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 597-609

  Drozdovitch, Vladimir ^a   Minenko, Victor ^b   Khrouch, Valeri ^c   Leshcheva, Svetlana ^d   Gavrilin, Yury ^c   Khrutchinsky, Arkady ^b   Kukhta, Tatiana ^e   Kutsen, Semion ^b   Luckyanov, Nickolas ^a   Shinkarev, Sergey ^c   Tretyakevich, Sergey ^f   Trofimik, Sergey ^b   Voillequé, Paul ^g   Bouville, André ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR PROBLEMS   (Belarus)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d Republican Research Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology   (Belarus)

^e UNITED INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS PROBLEMS   (Belarus)

^f Institute for Command Engineers   (Belarus)

^g MJP Risk Assessment Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; IODINE 131; RADIOISOTOPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BELARUS; CANCER RISK; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; DOSIMETRY; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INFANT; INGESTION; INHALATION; IRRADIATION; LEAFY VEGETABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MILK; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; THYROID CANCER; THYROID DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; KINETICS; RADIOMETRY; REPUBLIC OF BELARUS; THYROID GLAND; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84876989916     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: 19385404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR3153.1     Document Type: Review

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