Solar particle event dose distributions: Parameterization of dose-time profiles

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 43, Issue 3-6, 1998, Pages 249-259

  Zapp, E Neal ^a   Ramsey, Chester R ^a   Townsend, Lawrence W ^a   Badhwar, Gautam D ^b  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE MARROW; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMONAUT; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LENS; NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASON; SKIN; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICS; TIME;

NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ASTRONAUTS; BONE MARROW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONS; SKIN; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SPACE FLIGHT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032130271     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(98)00158-1     Document Type: Article

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