Effect of radon measurement methods on doseestimation

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 145, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 224-232

  Kávási, Norbert ^a   Kobayashi, Yosuke ^a   Kovács, Tibor ^b   Somlai, János ^b   Jobbágy, Viktor ^c   Nagy, Katalin ^d   Deák, Eszter ^d   Berhés, István ^d   Bender, Tamás ^e   Ishikawa, Tetsuo ^a   Tokonami, Shinji ^a   Vaupotič, Janja ^f   Yoshinaga, Shinji ^a   Yonehara, Hidenori ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^c Social Organization for Radio Ecological Cleanliness   (Hungary)

^d Markhot Ferenc Hospital   (Hungary)

^e Polyclinic of the Hospitaller Brothers of St John of God in Budapest ^*  (Hungary)

^f JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON; RADON DAUGHTER;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUNGARY; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; SEASON;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; HOUSING; HUMANS; HUNGARY; RADON; RADON DAUGHTERS; SEASONS;

EID: 79957472976     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: 17423406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncr044     Document Type: Article

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