Absorbed internal dose conversion coefficients for domestic reference animals and plant

Nuclear Engineering and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 89-96

  Keum, Dong Kwon ^a   Jun, I ^a   Lim, Kwang Muk ^a   Choi, Yong H ^a  

^a Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Internal dose conversion factor; Non human species; Reference animals and plants; Uniform isotropic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949342472     PISSN: 17385733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5516/NET.2010.42.1.089     Document Type: Article

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