Study of the ratio of non-neutron to neutron dose components of cosmic radiation at typical commercial flight altitudes

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 357-362

  Romero, Ana M ^a   Saez Vergara, J C ^a   Rodriguez, R ^a   Dominguez Mompell R ^b  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b IBERA LAE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; DEVICE; GEOMETRY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONITOR; NEUTRON DOSIMETER; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; PREDICTION; RADIATION PROTECTION;

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; ALTITUDE; BODY BURDEN; COMMERCE; COSMIC RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; 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: 4644341654     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch112     Document Type: Article

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