Studies of charged particle tracks in NTA films for evaluation of edge effects in neutron dose assessment

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 315-320

  Hamid Khan, M A ^a,b   Chowdhury, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b ATOMIC ENERGY CENTER   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Edge effect; Neutron dosimetry; Sensitivity; Track counting

Indexed keywords

EMULSIONS; FILMS; HELIUM; NEUTRONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

NEUTRON DOSIMETRY;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 0036667205     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(02)00061-6     Document Type: Article

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