Authors
Sergii Masiuk, Mykola Chepurny, Valentyna Buderatska, Alexander Kukush, Sergiy Shklyar, Olga Ivanova, Zulfira Boiko, Natalia Zhadan, Galyna Fedosenko, Andriy Bilonyk, Tatiana Lev, Mykola Talerko, Semion Kutsen, Victor Minenko, Kiryl Viarenich, Vladimir Drozdovitch
Publication date
2021/5
Journal
Radiation and environmental biophysics
Volume
60
Pages
267-288
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Description
The increased risk of thyroid cancer among individuals exposed during childhood and adolescence to Iodine-131 (131I) is the main statistically significant long-term effect of the Chornobyl accident. Several radiation epidemiological studies have been carried out or are currently in progress in Ukraine, to assess the risk of radiation-related health effects in exposed populations. About 150,000 measurements of 131I thyroid activity, so-called ‘direct thyroid measurements’, performed in May–June 1986 in the Ukrainian population served as the main sources of data used to estimate thyroid doses to the individuals of these studies. However, limitations in the direct thyroid measurements have been recently recognized including improper measurement geometry and unknown true values of calibration coefficients for unchecked thyroid detectors. In the present study, a comparative analysis of 131I thyroid activity …
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