The use of passive personal neutron dosemeters to determine the neutron dose equivalent component of radiation fields in spacecraft

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 405-409

  Bartlett, David T ^a   Hager, L G ^a   Tanner, R J ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; NEUTRON DOSIMETER; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; NEUTRON RADIATION; PERSONAL MONITORING; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPACE FLIGHT;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS SHUTTLE PROJECT;

BODY BURDEN; COSMIC RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONALITY; NEUTRONS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPACE FLIGHT; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 4644324647     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch131     Document Type: Article

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