Natural Radionuclides And Potential Radiological Hazard Associated with Consumption of Water, Oreochromis niloticus and Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus from Ero Dam, Ekiti, Nigeria [PDF]
Introduction: This study aims to evaluate the potential radiological hazard associated with the consumption of water and fish products from Ero Dam.Material and Methods: The activity concentrations of 238U, 232Th and 40K in the samples were determined ...
Margaret Adedokun +3 more
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Natural radionuclides 226Ra, 232Th and 40K in soil are the primary component of the background exposure sources of the population. Study of the external exposure due to gamma-ray radiation of natural radionuclides is important because this may contribute
S Syarbaini +3 more
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New Gamma-Spectrometry Technologies for Environmental Sciences
HPGe-spectrometers operating in underground laboratories represent the most important recent achievements in the radiometric sector mainly because of better sensitivity, which enabled to decrease a sample size by about a factor of ten, and to carry out ...
Pavel P. Povinec
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Experimental Measurements and Computer Simulation of Fission Product Gamma-Ray Spectra [PDF]
Airborne gamma ray spectrometry using high volume scintillation detectors, optionally in conjunction with Ge detectors, has potential for making rapid environmental measurements in response to nuclear accidents. An experimental investigation and computer
Allyson, J.D. +4 more
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We develop a novel peak detection algorithm for the analysis of comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC$\times$GC-TOF MS) data using normal-exponential-Bernoulli (NEB) and mixture probability models.
Jeong, Jaesik +4 more
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Hepatocellular carcinoma: Review of disease and tumor biomarkers. [PDF]
© The Author(s) 2016.Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common malignancy and now the second commonest global cause of cancer death. HCC tumorigenesis is relatively silent and patients experience late symptomatic presentation. As the option for curative
Cox, IJ +8 more
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Detection of Escape Peaks in Environmental Gamma Spectrometry
Pair production (PP) events are observed with gamma spectrometry when investigated samples emit sufficient numbers of photons with energies greater than 1.022 MeV.
Tareq Alrefae, Tiruvachi Nageswaran
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Report on Airborne Radiometric Survey of the Thurso Area, 15th to 17th November 2006 [PDF]
A survey of part of Caithness near Thurso has been conducted as a performance test for a new Airborne Gamma Spectrometry (AGS) system developed at SUERC.
Cresswell, A.J., Sanderson, D.C.W.
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Accuracy of a Bayesian technique to estimate position and activity of orphan gamma-ray sources by mobile gamma spectrometry: Influence of imprecisions in positioning systems and computational approximations. [PDF]
Bukartas A, Wallin J, Finck R, Rääf C.
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The health risk from thoron (Rn-220) is usually ignored owing to its short half-life (55.6 s), but the generated thoron decay products can cause a significant dose contribution.
Jónás Jácint +5 more
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