Effects of trapped proton flux anisotropy on dose rates in low Earth orbit

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 415-426

  Badhwar, G D ^a   Kushin, V V ^b   Akatov, Yu A ^c   Myltseva, V A ^d  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^d State Research Institute of the Baking Industry   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COSMIC RAYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRONS; ORBITS; PROTONS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE SHUTTLES; SPACECRAFT; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

NUCLEAR EMULSIONS; PROTON AND NEUTRON DOSE EQUIVALENT; THERMOLUMINESCENT DETECTORS; TISSUE EQUIVALENT PROPORTIONAL COUNTER; TRAPPED PROTON FLUX ANISOTROPY;

DOSIMETRY;

PROTON;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; COSMIC RADIATION; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MANNED; NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH; NEUTRON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; SHORT DURATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SOUTH AMERICA; SPACE FLIGHT; STS-94 SHUTTLE PROJECT; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-94 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ANISOTROPY; ATLANTIC OCEAN; COSMIC RADIATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; NEUTRONS; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOUTH AMERICA; SPACE FLIGHT; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 0033237361     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(99)00068-2     Document Type: Article

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