Dosimetry of environmental radiation - A report on the achievements of EURADOS WG3

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 167-175

  Wissmann, Frank ^a   Saez Vergara J C ^b  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b CIEMAT   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; DOSIMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; EUROPE; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PHOTON; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; AIR POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE; CALIBRATION; COSMIC RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; EUROPE; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 33745728223     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl015     Document Type: Article

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