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Overexposure of humans to ionizing radiation has occurred worldwide in the past and will surely occur again in the future. In order to allow an effective radiation accident management, it is consequently necessary to be prepared for such emergency situations and to improve means and ways to help people suffering from radiation-induced health impairments. Such approaches should rely on knowledge and experience gained from previous radiation incidents. A prerequisite for any scientific evaluation and comparison of information related to radiation accidents is to collect data in a standardized way. Therefore, the SEARCH database (System for Evaluation and Archiving of Radiation accidents based on Case Histories) has been developed in our department and implemented as an Oracle 8.0 database containing to date more than 800 case histories. The use of this registry is so far limited to active contributors and requires each contributor to sign a cooperation agreement. More information is available under http://www.faw.uni-ulm.de/radmed/.
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Received: 7 February 2000 / Accepted: 8 May 2000
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Friesecke, I., Beyrer, K., Wedel, R. et al. SEARCH: a system for evaluation and archiving of radiation accidents based on case histories. Radiat Environ Biophys 39, 213–217 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004110000056
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004110000056