Room model with three modal distributions of attached radon progeny

Health Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 405-409

  Nikezic D ^a   Stevanovic N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Exposure, population; Monte Carlo; Radon; Radon progeny

Indexed keywords

LEAD; LEAD 214; RADON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RADON DAUGHTER;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVITY; ROOM MODEL; AIR; AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; RADIATION MONITORING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; AIR POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; LEAD RADIOISOTOPES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION MONITORING; RADON DAUGHTERS; VENTILATION;

EID: 4644251286     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200410000-00007     Document Type: Article

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