Evaluation of background ionizing radiation levels in some x-ray centres in owerri, imo state, nigeria
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 3
Abstract
The background ionizing radiation in some selected hospitals and diagnosticcentres in Owerri, Imo State, South-eastern Nigeria was measured using a portable Geiger Muller counter model GCA-04. The measured background radiation in all the environments considered ranged from 0.092±0.02-0.225±0.01 µSv/hr. The measured values were observed to be lower than the world average of natural background radiation of 0.2741 µSv/hr. This shows that the areas have low natural background radiation.
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Orji E. Chikwendu, Eke C. Benedict, Amakom M. Chijioke,, Nwoko O. Emmanuel and Okafor C. Cornelius
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