Contribution from thoron on the response of passive radon detectors

Health Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 612-615

  Tokonami, Shinji ^a   Yang, Mingli ^b   Sanada, Tetsuya ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Research Institute of Uranium Mining   (China)

^c Japan Chemical Analysis Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

220Rn; 222Rn; Detector, alpha track; Monitoring, air

Indexed keywords

RADON; RADON 220;

ACCURACY; AIR MONITORING; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RELIABILITY;

THORON;

EID: 0035000805     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200106000-00014     Document Type: Article

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