Reliability of thyroid doses due to 131I intake exceeding 5 Gy in a cohort of Belarusian children exposed to Chernobyl fallout

• Published in: Radiation and environmental biophysics Vol. 60; no. 1; pp. 179 - 191
• Main Authors: Kukhta, Tatiana, Minenko, Victor, Trofimik, Sergey, Drozdovitch, Vladimir
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.03.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biological and Medical Physics; Biophysics; Children; Ecosystems; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection; Environmental Physics; Exposure; Fallout; Impact analysis; Iodine; Iodine 131; Iodine isotopes; Iodine radioisotopes; Mathematical analysis; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Nuclear accidents; Nuclear power plants; Original Article; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Population studies; Radiation measurement; Radioactive fallout; Reliability analysis; Thyroid; Thyroid cancer; Thyroid diseases; Thyroid gland; Chernobyl; I; Radiation dose; Reliability; 5 gy; Thyroid

High thyroid doses due to Iodine-131 ( 131 I) intake among individuals exposed in childhood and adolescence to Chernobyl fallout raise questions about their reliability and their impact on the analysis of the radiation-related risk of thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases in the exposed populati...