Spatiotemporal characteristics of internal radiation exposure in evacuees and first responders after the radiological accident in Fukushima

Radiation Research

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 299-306

  Morita, Naoko ^a   Miura, Miwa ^a   Yoshida, Masahiro ^a   Kumagai, Atsushi ^b   Ohtsuru, Akira ^b   Usa, Toshiro ^c   Kudo, Takashi ^a   Takamura, Noboru ^a   Yamashita, Shunichi ^a,b   Matsuda, Naoki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; IODINE 131; RADIOISOTOPE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHQUAKE; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WHOLE BODY COUNTER;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 84884277200     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: 19385404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR3372.1     Document Type: Article

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