Evaluation of solid state nuclear track detector stacks exposed on the international space station

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 393-397

  Palfalvi J K ^a   Akatov, Yu ^b   Szabo J ^a   Sajo Bohus L ^c   Eordogh I ^d  

^a WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNICAL PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; DEVICE; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; NEUTRON RADIATION; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION FIELD; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOLID STATE; SPACE FLIGHT;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; ISS PROJECT; LONG DURATION; 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: 4644346300     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch140     Document Type: Article

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