Real-time measurement of individual occupational radon exposures in tombs of the Valley of the Kings, Egypt

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 144, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 620-626

  Gruber, E ^a   Salama, E ^b   Ruhm W ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; SEASON; SOIL POLLUTANT; TIME;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; ARCHAEOLOGY; CALIBRATION; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADON; SEASONS; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79953741611     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: 17423406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncq450     Document Type: Article

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