Averaged particle dose conversion coefficients in air crew dosimetry

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 371-376

  Mares, V ^a   Roesler, S ^b   Schraube, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE CREW; ALTITUDE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSE; SOLAR RADIATION;

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUTRONS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4644311908     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch137     Document Type: Article

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