International space station: A testbed for experimental and computational dosimetry

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1656-1663

  Wilson, J W ^a   Cucinotta, F A ^b   Golightly, M J ^b   Nealy, J E ^c   Qualls, G D ^a   Badavi, F F ^d   De Angelis, G ^c   Anderson, B M ^a   Clowdsley, M S ^a   Luetke, N ^e   Zapp, N ^f   Shavers, M R ^g   Semones, E ^b   Hunter, A ^h  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^f LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^g WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^h Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

ISS dosimetry; Model validation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COSMIC RAYS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DOSIMETRY; PROTONS;

COMPUTATIONAL DOSIMETRY; ISS DOSIMETRY; MODEL VALIDATION;

SPACE STATIONS;

EID: 33744785385     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.02.038     Document Type: Article

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