Household salt as a retrospective dosemeter using optically stimulated luminescence

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-28

  Bernhardsson, Christian ^a   Christiansson, Maria ^a   Mattsson, Sören ^a   Rääf, Christopher L ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSES; BACKGROUND SIGNALS; BLUE LIGHTS; DOSE RANGES; IONISING RADIATIONS; LINEAR DOSE RESPONSES; LOW DOSES; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCES; OPTIMISATION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

IONIZING RADIATION; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT SOURCES; LUMINESCENCE; SALTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

LIGHT;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; LUMINESCENCE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 58149337377     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-008-0191-y     Document Type: Article

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