Measurement and simulation of lineal energy distribution at the CERN high energy facility with a tissue equivalent proportional counter

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 125, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 425-428

  Rollet, Sofia ^a   Autischer, M ^a,b   Beck, P ^a   Latocha, M ^a,c  

^a ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION MONITORING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE EQUIVALENT PROPORTIONAL COUNTER; ARTICLE; AVIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLAR ENERGY;

AVIATION; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 52249085481     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl554     Document Type: Conference Paper

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