Natural radioactivity levels and radiation hazard indices in granite from Aswan to Wadi El-Allaqi southeastern desert, Egypt

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 148-154

  El Taher, Atef ^a   Uosif, M A M ^a   Orabi, A A ^a  

^a AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM 40; RADIOISOTOPE; RADON; RADON 226; THORIUM 232; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EGYPT; GAMMA RADIATION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGY; NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION HAZARD; REFERENCE VALUE; ROCK; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BACKGROUND RADIATION; DESERT CLIMATE; EGYPT; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 37449009387     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm211     Document Type: Article

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