Measurements of radioactivity in books and calculations of resultant eye doses to readers

Health Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 169-174

  Imtiaz, M Abid ^a,d   Begum, Aleya ^b   Mollah, A S ^a   Zaman, M A ^c  

^a Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission   (Bangladesh)

^b ATOMIC ENERGY CENTER   (Bangladesh)

^c JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^d SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dose assessment; Dose, external; Exposure, population; Naturally occurring radionuclides

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOK; EYE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOACTIVITY; READING; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; HUMAN; RADIATION MONITORING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BOOKS; EYE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA;

EID: 13844276127     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000146583.34944.6d     Document Type: Article

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