Responses of a direct ion storage dosimeter (DIS-1) to heavy charged particles

H Yasuda1

  • 1National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Anagawa 4-9-1, Inage, Chiba-shi 263-8555, Japan. h_yasuda@nirs.go.jp

Radiation Research
|December 14, 2001
PubMed

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