Estimation of the counting efficiencies for individual subjects in 137Cs whole-body counting, using voxel phantoms

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 195-200

  Ishikawa, T ^a   Uchiyama, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; DOSIMETRY; JAPAN; PHANTOM; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

EID: 0030873674     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a032052     Document Type: Article

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