Low-level counting: Past - present - future

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 47, Issue 9-10, 1996, Pages 827-834

  Theodórsson, Páll ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIOISOTOPES; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

GAS PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS; GERMANIUM DIODES; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; LOW LEVEL COUNTING; SILICONE DIODES; SODIUM IODIDE DETECTORS;

RADIATION COUNTERS;

CONFERENCE PAPER; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR;

EID: 0030248777     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(96)00071-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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