Relative performance of different types of passive dosimeters employing solid state nuclear track detectors

Health Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 629-632

  Jamil, Khalid ^a   Al Ahmady, K K ^b   Fazal ur Rehman, ^a   Ali, Safdar ^a   Qureshi, A A ^a   Khan, H A ^a  

^a PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b Office of Environmental Toxicoloay   (United States)

Author keywords

Detector; Dosimetry; Radiation; Radon; Soil

Indexed keywords

RADON; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; NUCLEAR REACTOR; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RADIATION DETECTION; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 0030931535     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199710000-00006     Document Type: Article

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