Correction of sampler-to-sampler comparisons based on aerosol size distribution

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 237-245

  O'Shaughnessy, Patrick T ^a   Lo, Julie ^b   Golla, Vijay ^a   Nakatsu, Jason ^c   Tillery, Marvin I ^c   Reynolds, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Carolina Environmental Inc   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol samplers; Correlation analysis; Normalization technique

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYCLONE SEPARATOR; DEVICE; ORGANIC DUST; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLER;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33847076198     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: 15459632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459620701193533     Document Type: Article

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