In vivo EPR for dosimetry

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 42, Issue 6-7, 2007, Pages 1075-1084

  Swartz, Harold M ^a   Burke, Greg ^a   Coey, M ^d   Demidenko, Eugene ^a   Dong, Ruhong ^a   Grinberg, Oleg ^a   Hilton, James ^a   Iwasaki, Akinori ^a   Lesniewski, Piotr ^a   Kmiec, Maciej ^a   Lo, Kai Ming ^b   Javier Nicolalde, R ^a   Ruuge, Andres ^a   Sakata, Yasuko ^a   Sucheta, Artur ^a   Walczak, Tadeusz ^a   Williams, Benjamin B ^a   Mitchell, Chad A ^c   Romanyukha, Alex ^c   Schauer, David A ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Resonance Research Inc   (United States)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

After the fact dosimetry; Dosimetry; EPR; In vivo; Radiation accidents; Retrospective; Teeth; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DOSIMETRY; IONIZING RADIATION; MAGNETS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; RISK ANALYSIS;

AFTER-THE-FACT DOSIMETRY; TEETH;

PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE;

EID: 34548739556     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2007.05.023     Document Type: Article

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