Ammonium tartrate as an ESR dosimeter material

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 955-965

  Olsson, Sara K ^a   Bagherian, Shahrbanou ^a   Lund, Eva ^a   Alm Carlsson, Gudrun ^a   Lund, Anders ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE;

AMMONIUM TARTRATE;

DOSIMETERS;

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 0033136802     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(98)00120-1     Document Type: Article

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