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ArticleEnvironmental monitoring and assessment2022

Assessment of indoor radon concentration and time-series analysis of gamma dose rate in three thermal spas from Portugal.

Ana Sofia Silva, Maria de Lurdes Dinis

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Article in Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  1. State-of-the-Art Review on Removal of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials in Water.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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  4. An overview on the relationship between residential radon and lung cancer: what we know and future research.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2023
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2 authors.

Ana Sofia SilvaCERENA/FEUP - Centre for Natural Resources and the Environment, FEUP - Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal.
Maria de Lurdes DinisCERENA/FEUP - Centre for Natural Resources and the Environment, FEUP - Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal. mldinis@fe.up.pt.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4774-2533

Funding

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Base Funding - UIDB/04028/2020 of the Research Center for Natural Resources and Environment - CERENA - funded by national funds through the FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC).
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This work is a follow-up study on the exposure to indoor radon levels in Portuguese thermal spas. The previous research involved 16 thermal spas, where radon measurements in air and thermal mineral water were performed twice a year, from 2012 to 2016. These studies revealed concerning radon concentrations both in air and water. Therefore, a follow-up study on long-term radon measurements was conducted to estimate the year-round average radon exposure. The closer the long-term measurement is to 365 days, the more representative it will be of annual average radon levels. Continuous measurements over 1 year for the indoor radon levels are now presented for three of the 16 previously studied thermal spas, together with a time-series analysis of the gamma dose rates registered within the facilities of these thermal spas (TS). An attempt to identify possible patterns in the variation of gamma dose rates was made. Hourly gamma dose rates were modelled and forecasted using the Box-Jenkins seasonal time series models (SARIMA). The results showed that between December 2018 and November 2019, the indoor radon concentration varied from 202 to 1941 Bq/m

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Air Pollutants, RadioactiveAir Pollution, IndoorRadiation MonitoringRadonFollow-Up StudiesHumansPortugalAir Pollutants, RadioactiveRadonEffective doseGamma doseModelOccupational exposureRadonTime-series analysis

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PMID35879585
PMCPMC9314312

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