Gamma activity and geochemical features of building materials: Estimation of gamma dose rate and indoor radon levels in Sicily

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 259-265

  Rizzo, S ^a   Brai, M ^a   Basile, S ^a   Bellia, S ^a   Hauser, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Building materials; Radium equivalent; Radon exhalation

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; DOSIMETERS; GERMANIUM; HEALTH HAZARDS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIUM; RADON; RISK PERCEPTION;

GAMMA ACTIVITY;

GAMMA RAYS;

GERMANIUM; POTASSIUM; RADIUM; RADON; THORIUM;

ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; DEVICE; EXHALATION; GAMMA RADIATION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; ITALY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE; SAND; SOIL;

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POTASSIUM RADIOISOTOPES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOISOTOPES; RADON; SICILY; THORIUM; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0035085149     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(00)00384-5     Document Type: Article

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