Comparisons of spore dosimetry and spectral photometry of solar-UV radiation at four sites in Japan and Europe

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 739-745

  Munakata, Nobuo ^a   Kazadzis, Stelios ^b   Bais, Alkiviadis F ^b   Hieda, Kotaro ^c   Rontó, Györgyi ^d   Rettberg, Petra ^e   Horneck, Gerda ^e  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^e GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; JAPAN; RADIATION DOSE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EUROPE; JAPAN; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 0034593087     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2000)072<0739:COSDAS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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