Variation in lunar neutron dose estimates

Radiation Research

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 827-841

  Slaba, Tony C ^a   Blattnig, Steve R ^a   Clowdsley, Martha S ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; POLYETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; HZETRN2010 CALCULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNAR NEUTRON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOON; NEUTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

ALUMINUM; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOON; NEURONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLYETHYLENE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 82955193772     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: 19385404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR2616.1     Document Type: Article

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