Calibration factors for Ge detectors used for field spectrometry

Health Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 15-29

  Helfer, Irene K ^a,b   Miller, Kevin M ^a  

^a Environmental Measurements Laboratory   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; GERMANIUM DETECTOR; NONHUMAN; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION MONITORING; SPECTROMETRY;

CALIBRATION; GERMANIUM; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA;

EID: 0023735332     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: 15385159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-198807000-00002     Document Type: Article

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