A new device to measure the activity size distribution of radon progeny in a low level environment

Health Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 494-497

  Tokonami, Shinji ^a   Takahashi, Fumiaki ^b,c   Iimoto, Takeshi ^b   Kurosawa, Ryuhei ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

222Rn; Air sampling; Alpha; Radon progeny; Spectrometry

Indexed keywords

RADON DAUGHTER; SILICON;

ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; DEVICE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 0030797352     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199709000-00008     Document Type: Article

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