Retrospective assessment of environmental dose rates using optically stimulated luminescence from Al2O3:C and quartz

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 84, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 537-542

  Botter Jensen L ^a   Banerjee, D ^a   Jungner, H ^b   Murray, A S ^a,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE; CARBON; CESIUM 137; RADIOISOTOPE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTAL; DOSIMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; LUMINESCENCE; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0032802752     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a032793     Document Type: Conference Paper

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