Space radiation risks for astronauts on multiple international space station missions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Cucinotta, Francis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMONAUT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ENERGY TRANSFER; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASTRONAUTS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 84899746859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096099     Document Type: Article

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