An instrument for measuring equilibrium-equivalent 222Rn and 220Rn concentrations with etched track detectors

Health Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 584-587

  Zhuo, Weihai ^b   Iida, Takao ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Detector, etched track; Instrumentation; Monitors, radiation; Radon progeny

Indexed keywords

RADON 220; RADON 222;

ARTICLE; CHINA; DOSIMETRY; FLOW RATE; JAPAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032837230     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199911000-00013     Document Type: Article

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