Radiation chemistry in alanine irradiated with γ-rays and ion beams

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 47, Issue 11-12, 1996, Pages 1205-1209

  Koizumi, Hitoshi ^a   Ichikawa, Tsuneki ^a   Yoshida, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; IONS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARTICLE BEAMS; RADIATION CHEMISTRY; RADIATION EFFECTS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

ALANINE; COMBINATION REACTIONS; RADIATION QUALITY; RADICALS;

DOSIMETRY;

FREE RADICAL;

ALANINE DOSIMETRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA RADIATION; HEAVY ION RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0030293873     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(96)00156-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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