Quality assurance and quality control methodologies used within the austrian UV monitoring network

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 359-362

  Mario, Blumthaler ^a  

^a Institute of Medical Physics   (Austria)

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Indexed keywords

OZONE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CALIBRATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION MONITORING; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

ALGORITHMS; AUSTRIA; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOLAR ENERGY; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 10444285387     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch054     Document Type: Article

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