Radiocesium in mushrooms from selected locations in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 145-151

  Dvořák, Petr ^a   Kunová, Veronika ^a   Beňová, Katarína ^b   Ohera, Marcel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^c Radiation Protection   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA-SPECTROMETRY; RADIOCESIUM ACTIVITIES;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; FOOD PRODUCTS; REGIONAL PLANNING;

RADIATION HAZARDS;

CESIUM;

ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CZECH REPUBLIC; DRY MASS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; MUSHROOM; NONHUMAN; SLOVAKIA; SUILLUS LUTEUS; XEROCOMUS BADIUS;

AGARICALES; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CZECH REPUBLIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION, RADIOACTIVE; RADIATION MONITORING; SLOVAKIA; UKRAINE;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; SUILLUS LUTEUS; XEROCOMUS BADIUS;

EID: 33745829402     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-006-0044-5     Document Type: Article

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