Measurements and simulations of the radiation exposure to aircraft crew workplaces due to cosmic radiation in the atmosphere

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 126, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 564-567

  Beck, Peter ^a   Latocha, M ^a,c   Dorman, L ^b   Pelliccioni, M ^d   Rollet, S ^a  

^a ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^d INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE CREW; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; AVIATION; COSMIC RADIATION; DATA BASE; DOSIMETRY; IONIZING RADIATION; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; SIMULATION; WORKPLACE; AIRCRAFT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METHODOLOGY; NEUTRON; RADIATION MONITORING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEUTRONS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 52249120844     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm114     Document Type: Article

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