Assessment of terrestrial gamma radiation doses for some Egyptian granite samples

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 382-385

  El arabi, A M ^a   Ahmed, N K ^a   Din, K Salahel ^a  

^a SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAMMA RADIATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRANITE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY; POPULATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SOIL POLLUTANT;

BACKGROUND RADIATION; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; EGYPT; GAMMA RAYS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 45149118807     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm367     Document Type: Article

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