Distribution of uranium, thorium and some stable trace and toxic elements in human hair and nails in Niška Banja Town, a high natural background radiation area of Serbia (Balkan Region, South-East Europe)

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 145, Issue , 2015, Pages 66-77

  Sahoo, S K ^a   Zunic Z S ^b   Kritsananuwat, R ^a   Zagrodzki, P ^c,d   Bossew, P ^e   Veselinovic, N ^b   Mishra, S ^a   Yonehara, H ^a   Tokonami, S ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^e German Office for Radiation Protection   (Germany)

^f HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hair; High natural background radiation area; Nail; Thorium; Trace elements; Uranium

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METALS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MANGANESE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NAILS; NICKEL; RADIATION; STRONTIUM; THORIUM; URANIUM;

DISTRIBUTION OF URANIUMS; EXPOSURE PATHWAYS; HAIR; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRIES (ICPMS); NATURAL BACKGROUNDS; NATURAL RADIONUCLIDES; SOUTH EAST EUROPE; SPATIAL CLUSTERING;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

CADMIUM; CESIUM; COPPER; MANGANESE; NICKEL; STABLE ISOTOPE; STRONTIUM; THORIUM; TRACE METAL; URANIUM; TRACE ELEMENT;

BIOINDICATOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIONUCLIDE; TOXICITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALKAN PENINSULA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IONIZING RADIATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NAIL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; SERBIA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION MONITORING; VERY ELDERLY;

NISKA BANJA; SERBIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION MONITORING; SERBIA; THORIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

EID: 84926685128     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2015.03.020     Document Type: Article

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