Indoor inhalation dose estimates due to radon and thoron in some areas of South-Western Punjab, India

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 112-116

  Kumar, Sanjeev ^a   Singh, Surinder ^a   Bajwa, Bikramjit Singh ^a   Singh, Bhupinder ^a   Sabharwal, Arvind D ^a   Eappen, K P ^b  

^a GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b International Environment Consulting   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON; RADON DAUGHTER;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INDIA; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; RADIATION MONITORING;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; HUMANS; INDIA; INHALATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADON; RADON DAUGHTERS;

EID: 84864933764     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: 17423406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncr461     Document Type: Article

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