Exposure of aircraft crew to cosmic radiation: On-board intercomparison of various dosemeters

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 411-415

  Bottollier Depois, Jean Francois ^a   Trompier, F ^a   Clairand, I ^a   Spurny, F ^b   Bartlett, D ^c   Beck, P ^d   Lewis, B ^e   Lindborg, L ^f   O'Sullivan, D ^g   Roos, H ^h   Tommasino, L ⁱ  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^b NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

^e ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^f Swedish Radiation Protection Authority   (Sweden)

^g DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

ⁱ APAT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE CREW; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; HUMAN; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROPORTIONAL COUNTER; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION FIELD; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER;

AIRCRAFT; BODY BURDEN; COSMIC RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONALITY; NEUTRONS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4644319123     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch217     Document Type: Article

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