Assessing czt detector performance for environmental radioactivity investigations

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 477-482

  Rahman, Rubina ^a   Plater, A J ^a   Nolan, P J ^a   Appleby, P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM; CADMIUM; CDZNTE; CESIUM; GERMANIUM; TELLURIUM; ZINC;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAMMA RADIATION; IMAGE QUALITY; SEDIMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOIL POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; AMERICIUM; CADMIUM; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAMMA RAYS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GERMANIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SEMICONDUCTORS; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; TELLURIUM; ZINC;

EID: 84879868291     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: 17423406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncs253     Document Type: Article

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