Body Potassium Content and Radiation Dose from 40K for the Urals Population (Russia).

Long-term whole-body monitoring of radionuclides in residents of the Urals Region has been performed at the Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine (URCRM, Chelyabinsk). Quantification of 40K was achieved by measuring the 40K photopeak with four phoswich detectors in whole body counter SICH-9.1...

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Main Authors: Evgenia I Tolstykh, Marina O Degteva, Nikolay G Bougrov, Bruce A Napier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4844139?pdf=render