A nonparametric assessment of the relative output of INAA and PIXE on joint determinands in environmental samples (atmospheric biomonitors)

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 222, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 587-592

  Pacheco, Adriano M G ^a   Freitas, Maria Do Carmo ^b   Ventura, Márcia G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO E NUCLEAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Biological monitoring; Epiphytic lichens; INAA; Nonparametric statistics; PIXE; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRACE ELEMENTS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; EPIPHYTIC LICHENS; INSTRUMENTAL NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS (INAA); NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS; PARTICLE-INDUCED X-RAY EMISSION (PIXE);

ION BEAMS;

EID: 3142714448     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2004.03.064     Document Type: Article

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