International intercomparisons of integrating radon detectors in the NIRS radon chamber

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1691-1696

  Janik, Miroslaw ^a,b   Tokonami, Shinji ^a   Kovács, Tibor ^c   Kávási, Norbert ^a   Kranrod, Chutima ^a,d   Sorimachi, Atsuyuki ^a   Takahashi, Hiroyuki ^a   Miyahara, Nobuyuki ^a   Ishikawa, Tetsuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^d CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Intercomparison; Quality assurance; Radon; Radon chamber; Radon detectors

Indexed keywords

FOUR-GROUP; INTEGRATING DETECTORS; INTERCOMPARISON; INTERCOMPARISONS; INTERNATIONAL INTERCOMPARISON; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; RADON CHAMBER; RADON CONCENTRATIONS; RADON DETECTORS; RADON LEVEL;

DETECTORS; FLOW PATTERNS; HUMIDITY CONTROL; INFRARED TRANSMISSION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WATER ANALYSIS;

RADON;

RADON;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; HUMIDITY; JAPAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 67349098395     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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