Assessment of biodosimetry methods for a mass-casualty radiological incident: Medical response and management considerations

Health Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 540-554

  Sullivan, Julie M ^a,b   Prasanna, Pataje G S ^c   Grace, Marcy B ^a   Wathen, Lynne K ^a   Wallace, Rodney L ^a   Koerner, John F ^a   Coleman, C Norman ^a,c  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^b AAAS   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

biodosimetry; cytogenetics; dose assessment; emergency planning

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIOPHYSICS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOLOGY; DNA DAMAGE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GENETICS; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; LYMPHOCYTE; MASS DISASTER; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NEUTROPHIL; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOMETRY;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; CYTOKINESIS; DNA DAMAGE; HEMATOLOGY; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MICRORNAS; NEUTROPHILS; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RADIOMETRY; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRIAGE;

EID: 84887394492     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: 15385159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e31829cf221     Document Type: Article

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