本书主要内容包括呼出气中钍射气活度测量系统的建立及其应用、白云鄂博稀土铁矿接尘矿工肺内钍沉积量和周围血象的量效关系、白云鄂博稀土铁矿接尘矿工肺内钍沉积和肝功能的量效关系、白云鄂博稀土铁矿接尘矿工发生尘肺等非随机性效应的量效关系、白云鄂博稀土铁矿矿工肺癌死亡率的流行病学调查、呼吸道吸入二氧化钍和稀土矿尘的联合作用、二氧化钍从1名矿工肺内廓清的7年连续观察和分析以及综合性卫生防护措施和效果等。本书是英文版。

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2  The establishment of a portable high sensitivity exhaled thoron activity measurement system

Chapter 3 Investigation and assessment of the thorium lung burden of the miners at the Bayun Obo Rare-earth Iron Mine

Chapter 4 Dose-effect relationship between the thorium lung burden and the blood counts of the miners at the Bayun Obo Rare-earth Iron Mine

Chapter 5  Dose-effect relationship between the thorium lung burden and the hepatic function of the miners at the Bayan Obo Rare-earth Iron Mine

Chapter 6 Dose-effect relationships between the incidence of pneumoconiosis and thorium-containing ore dusts in the Bayun Obo miners

Chapter 7 An epidemiological study of lung cancer mortality in miners at the Bayun Obo Rare-Earth Iron Mine

Chapter 8 Combined effects of thorium dioxide and thorium- containing rare-earth iron dusts (Th-dusts)

Chapter 9 An observation on the clearance of thorium dioxide from the lung of a miner

Chapter 10 Comprehensive health protection measures and its effects