Revisiting Currie - How low can you go?

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 53, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 45-50

  Hurtgen, Christian ^a   Jerome, Simon ^b   Woods, Mike ^b  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Limits of detection; Limits of determination; Low level alpha spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ALPHA PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; RADIATION CHEMISTRY; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIOMETRY;

ALPHA SPECTROMETRY;

RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT;

CONFERENCE PAPER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034662435     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(00)00171-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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