The unified interaction model applied to LiF:Mg, Ti (TLD-100): Properties of the luminescent and competitive centres during sensitisation

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 295-304

  Nail, I ^a   Horowitz, Y S ^a   Oster, L ^a   Biderman, S ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LITHIUM FLUORIDE; MAGNESIUM; TITANIUM; FLUORIDE; LITHIUM DERIVATIVE; RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTRON RADIATION; GAMMA RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODEL; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RADIOSENSITIZATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOCHEMISTRY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FLUORIDES; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNESIUM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; PHOTONS; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; RADIOCHEMISTRY; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; TITANIUM;

EID: 0036448402     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006098     Document Type: Article

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