Abstract
Between 1986 and 1991 approximately 6500 Latvian inhabitants were recruited for clean-up work at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Their absorbed doses are usually unknown, because less than half of them had their external exposure officially documented. Clinical investigations show a high morbidity rate for these clean-up workers when compared with that of the general population. In order to understand the causes of their diseases and the impact of ionising radiation, electron spin resonance (ESR) has been used to measure the absorbed doses in human tooth enamel. The doses estimated by ESR were between two and three times higher than previously documented and are in accord with the results of immunological and biological tests. The results may be explained by considering the effects of irradiation caused by long-lived incorporated radionuclides.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 237-240 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Radiation Protection Dosimetry |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue number | 1-3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2001 |
| Event | European Workshop on Individual Monitoring of External Radiation - Helsinki, Finland Duration: 4 Sept 2000 → 6 Sept 2000 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11871338/ |
Field of Science*
- 3.1 Basic medicine
- 3.2 Clinical medicine
Publication Type*
- 3.1. Articles or chapters in proceedings/scientific books indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database
