Strategies for millirad sensitivity in pmos dosimeters

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3 PART 3, 1998, Pages 1475-1480

  Conneely, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RAYS; MOS DEVICES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THERMAL EFFECTS;

PMOS DOSIMETERS; TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION TECHNIQUE;

DOSIMETERS;

EID: 0032097405     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.685226     Document Type: Article

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