Short-term temporal variations of soil gas radon concentration and comparison of measurement techniques

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-63

  Neznal, Martin ^a   Matolín, Milan ^b   Just, Günther ^c   Turek, Karel ^d  

^a Radon vos Corp   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Forschungsburo Radon und Balneologie   (Germany)

^d NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONITORING; OBSERVATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL STRUCTURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; GASES; RADIOMETRY; RADON; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 0842303580     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch004     Document Type: Article

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