ArticlePloS one2015
Estimation of external dose by car-borne survey in Kerala, India.
Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- External radiation exposure via car-borne survey among returnees in former restricted regions in Fukushima a decade after the nuclear accident.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- What can we learn from high background radiation area (HBRA) studies in three Asian countries: India, China and Indonesia? Radiological aspects in various HBRAs.Journal of radiation research · 2024Review
- Health Effects of Natural Environmental Radiation during Burning Season in Chiang Mai, Thailand.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Ionizing Radiation-Induced Brain Cell Aging and the Potential Underlying Molecular Mechanisms.Cells · 2021Review
- Comprehensive exposure assessments from the viewpoint of health in a unique high natural background radiation area, Mamuju, Indonesia.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Distribution of gamma radiation dose rate related with natural radionuclides in all of Vietnam and radiological risk assessment of the built-up environment.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Gamma dose rate distribution in the Unegt subbasin, a uranium deposit area in Dornogobi Province, southeastern Mongolia.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2019Article
- Article
- Dispersion of radiocesium-contaminated bottom sediment caused by heavy rainfall in Joso City, Japan.PloS one · 2017Article
- Article
- A comparison of the dose from natural radionuclides and artificial radionuclides after the Fukushima nuclear accident.Journal of radiation research · 2016Article
- Radiation survey on Fukushima Medical University premises about four years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.Fukushima journal of medical science · 2016Article
- Dose and dose-rate effects of ionizing radiation: a discussion in the light of radiological protection.Radiation and environmental biophysics · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
13 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
A car-borne survey was carried out in Kerala, India to estimate external dose. Measurements were made with a 3-in × 3-in NaI(Tl) scintillation spectrometer from September 23 to 27, 2013. The routes were selected from 12 Panchayats in Karunagappally Taluk which were classified into high level, mid-level and low level high background radiation (HBR) areas. A heterogeneous distribution of air kerma rates was seen in the dose rate distribution map. The maximum air kerma rate, 2.1 μGy/h, was observed on a beach sand surface. 232Th activity concentration for the beach sand was higher than that for soil and grass surfaces, and the range of activity concentration was estimated to be 0.7-2.3 kBq/kg. The contribution of 232Th to air kerma rate was over 70% at the measurement points with values larger than 0.34 μGy/h. The maximum value of the annual effective dose in Karunagappally Taluk was observed around coastal areas, and it was estimated to be 13 mSv/y. More than 30% of all the annual effective doses obtained in this survey exceeded 1 mSv/y.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.