Overview of active personal dosemeters for individual monitoring in the European Union

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 125, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 261-266

  Ginjaume, Merce ^a   Bolognese Milsztajn, T ^b   Luszik Bhadra, M ^c   Vanhavere, F ^d   Wahl, W ^e   Weeks, A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^c PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^d BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^e INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^f Berkeley Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRONTIUM 90; THALLIUM 204; YTTRIUM 90;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; PERSONNEL RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION SAFETY; WORK ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 52249106499     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl136     Document Type: Conference Paper

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