Radiation risk from airline travel

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 784-785

  Barish, Robert J ^a  

^a LENOX HILL HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; COSMIC RADIATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; GENETIC DISORDER; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOTE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SICKNESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAVEL;

EID: 84928096637     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2004.05.007     Document Type: Article

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