History of the solar particle event radiation doses on-board aeroplanes using a semi-empirical model and concorde measurements

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 199-210

  Lantos, Pierre ^a   Fuller, N ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

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Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AIRPLANE CREW; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; EUROPE; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUTRON; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION MONITORING; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 0038185178     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006183     Document Type: Article

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