In-flight measured and predicted ambient dose equivalent and latitude differences on effective dose estimates

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 363-370

  Saez Vergara, J C ^a   Romero Gutierrez A M ^a   Rodriguez Jimenez R ^a   Dominguez Mompell Roman R ^b  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b Zona Industrial Aeropuerto Barajas   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LATITUDE; LAW; MONITOR; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; PREDICTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION PROTECTION; SOUTH AMERICA; SPAIN;

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; ALTITUDE; BODY BURDEN; COMMERCE; COSMIC RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; NEUTRONS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPAIN;

EID: 4644308588     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch133     Document Type: Article

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