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To enable personnel monitoring of occupational radiation exposure, dosimetric data are usually obtained from individual dosimeters such as film badges and thermoluminescent dosimeters. Over a number of years, biological dose estimation has been used to support the physical dosimetry in order to receive adequate information on uncertain or unvail-able physical dosimetry in cases of actual or suspected over-exposure. Vastly differing biological indicator systems of radiation exposure have been investigated, such as hematological and biochemical parameters, the sperm abnormality assay, the micronucleus analysis, and last but not least, the analysis of structural chromosome changes in peripheral human lymphocytes.
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Bauchinger, M. (1984). Cytogenetic Effects in Human Lymphocytes as a Dosimetry System. In: Eisert, W.G., Mendelsohn, M.L. (eds) Biological Dosimetry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69334-2_2
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