A pulse-coincidence 220Rn monitor with three time-gates

Environment International

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages

  Iimoto, Takeshi ^a   Kurosawa, Ryuhei ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLONIUM; RADON;

AIR SAMPLING; CONFERENCE PAPER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

POLONIUM; PROBABILITY; RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GRAB SAMPLING METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION PROBABILITY; PULSE COINCIDENCE RADON MONITOR;

RADON;

EID: 0030368813     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-4120(96)00230-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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