Cosmic radiation exposure of aircraft crew: Compilation of measured and calculated data

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 417-422

  Lindborg, Lennart ^a   Bartlett, David ^b   Beck, Peter ^c   McAulay, Ian ^d   Schnuer, Klaus ^e   Schraube, Hans ^f   Spurny, Frantisek ^g  

^a Swedish Radiation Protection Authority   (Sweden)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e European Communities ^*  (Luxembourg)

^f INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^g NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE CREW; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATITUDE; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION PROTECTION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RADIATION; EUROPEAN UNION; INTERNATIONALITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUTRONS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4644335778     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch232     Document Type: Article

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