Biologically effective doses of ambient solar-UV radiation in Indonesia and Japan

Medical Journal of Indonesia

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 123-128

  Munakata, Nobuo ^a   Comain, Santoso ^b   Mulyadi, Ketut ^c   Ichihashi, Masamitsu ^d   Prihartono, Joedo ^b   Ohno, Yoshiyuki ^e   Hamzah, Mochtar ^b   Kanoko, Mpu ^b   Poetiray, Evert ^b   Budiningsih, Setyawati ^b   Tjarta, Achmad ^b   Ueda, Masato ^d   Cipto, Herman ^b   Mukhtar, Arman ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^c UDAYANA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological method; Solar ultraviolet; Spore dosimeter

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; DOSIMETRY; EFFECTIVE DOSE (RADIATION); INDONESIA; JAPAN; MEMBRANE FILTER; NONHUMAN; RADIATION DOSE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR ENERGY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 85008658884     PISSN: 08531773     EISSN: 22528083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13181/mji.v9i2.665     Document Type: Article

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