Radiation protection quantities for near earth environments

A Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Space 2004 Conference and Exposition

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1660-1665

  Clowdsley, Martha S ^a,d   Wilson, John W ^a,d   Kim, Myung Hee ^b,e   Anderson, Brooke M ^a,f   Nealy, John E ^c,g  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Analytical and Computational Methods Branch   (United States)

^e Wyle/HAC/37A ^*  (United States)

^f Structural and Thermal Analysis Branch   (United States)

^g Mathematics Department

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW EARTH ORBIT (LEO); QUALITY FACTORS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SHIELDING MATERIALS;

DOSIMETRY; EARTH (PLANET); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH RISKS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; POLYETHYLENES;

RADIATION PROTECTION;

EID: 18844381577     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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