Dose uncertainties for large solar particle events: input spectra variability and human geometry approximations

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 337-343

  Townsend, Lawrence W ^a   Zapp, E Neal ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; CODES (SYMBOLS); DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROTONS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

HUMAN GEOMETRY APPROXIMATION; PROTON FLUENCE MEASUREMENTS; RADIATION TRANSPORT CODES; SOLAR PARTICLE EVENTS; SPECTRA VARIABILITY; SPECTRAL FITTING PARAMETERS;

DOSIMETRY;

ALUMINUM; PROTON;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BONE MARROW; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LENS; NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH; NON-NASA CENTER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; SKIN; SOLAR ENERGY;

NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH; NON-NASA CENTER;

ALUMINUM; BONE MARROW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; SKIN; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 0033237360     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(99)00060-8     Document Type: Article

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