Methods of dose determination using ESR spectra of tooth enamel

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 767-772

  Grün, Rainer ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CURVE FITTING; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; TOOTH ENAMEL;

DOSE DETERMINATION; SPECTRUM DECONVOLUTION;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 0343018446     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(99)00281-4     Document Type: Article

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