Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Terms and definitions
3 Dicentric assay
4 Responsibility of the customer
5 Responsibility of the service laboratory
6 Confidentiality of personal information
7 Laboratory safety requirements
8 Calibration curve(s)
9 Scoring unstable chromosome aberrations
10 Criteria for converting a measured aberration
frequency into an estimate of absorbed dose
11 Reporting of results
12 Quality assurance and quality control
Annex A (informative) - Sample instructions for
customer
Annex B (informative) - Sample questionnaire
Annex C (informative) - Sample data sheet for
recording aberrations
Annex D (informative) - Sample of report
Annex E (informative) - Odds ratio method for
cases of suspected exposure to a
low dose
Annex F (informative) - Fitting of the low LET
dose response-curve by the method of
maximum likelihood and calculating the
error of dose estimate
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