Advanced Radiation Protection Dosimetry

✍ Scribed by Dewji, Shaheen; Hertel, Nolan E

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 507
• Series: Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Ser
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
About the Series
The International Organization for Medical Physics
Preface
Acknowledgments
Editors
Contributors
External Reviewers
1: Introduction
Shaheen A. Dewji and Nolan E. Hertel
1.1 Regulation of Radiation Dose
1.1.1 Reports of the ICRU
1.1.2 Reports of the ICRP
1.1.3 Reports and Commentaries of the NCRP
1.1.4 U.S. Regulations
1.1.4.1 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
1.1.4.2 Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
1.1.4.3 Standards and Guidelines 1.1.5 International Committees and Organizations1.1.5.1 Other Governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations
1.2 Radiation Protection Professional Societies
1.3 Synopsis of the Book
References
2: Fundamental Concepts and Quantities
Ken G. Veinot
2.1 International Standard Units
2.1.1 Quantities and Units
2.1.2 The International System of Units (SI) and the Corresponding System of Quantities
2.1.3 SI Base Units
2.1.3.1 Units with Special Names and Symbols
2.1.4 Traditional Units for Radiation Protection
2.2 Atomic Structure
2.2.1 Proton
2.2.2 Neutron
2.2.3 Electron 2.2.4 The Nucleus2.2.4.1 Binding Energy
2.2.4.2 Mass Defect
2.2.4.3 Binding Energy per Nucleon
2.2.5 Liquid Drop Model
2.2.6 Electron Orbital Structure
2.2.6.1 Bohr Model
2.2.6.2 Sommerfeld Model
2.2.7 Excitation
2.2.8 Ionization
2.3 Nuclear Reactions
2.3.1 Absorption
2.3.2 Fission
2.3.3 Fusion
2.3.4 Elastic Scatter
2.3.5 Inelastic Scatter
2.4 Radioactive Decay
2.4.1 Alpha Decay
2.4.2 Beta Decay
2.4.3 Positron Decay
2.4.4 Electron Capture
2.4.5 Internal Conversion
2.4.6 Spontaneous Fission
2.4.7 Gamma Emissions
2.4.8 Isomeric Transitions (Metastable Energy States) 2.4.9 Radioactive Decay Law2.4.10 Radioactive Half-Life and Decay Constant
2.4.11 Production and Decay
2.4.12 Specific Activity
2.4.13 Serial Decay
2.4.14 Secular Equilibrium
2.4.15 Transient Equilibrium
2.4.16 Branching Ratios
2.5 Interaction of Radiation with Matter
2.5.1 Electrons
2.5.1.1 Soft Collisions
2.5.1.2 Hard Collisions
2.5.1.3 Bremsstrahlung
2.5.2 Photons
2.5.2.1 Photoelectric Effect
2.5.2.2 Compton Scatter
2.5.2.3 Pair Production
2.5.2.4 Photonuclear Reactions
2.5.3 Neutrons
2.5.3.1 Cross Sections
2.5.3.2 Absorption
2.5.3.3 Elastic Scatter 2.5.3.4 Inelastic Scatter2.5.4 Heavy Charged Particles
2.5.5 Range
2.5.6 Attenuation Coefficients
2.5.7 Mass Energy Transfer Coefficient
2.5.8 Mass Energy Absorption Coefficient
2.6 Radiation Protection Quantities and Units
2.6.1 Kerma
2.6.2 Absorbed Dose
2.6.2.1 Charged Particle Equilibrium
2.6.3 Exposure-Dose Relationship
2.6.4 Linear Energy Transfer and Quality Factor
2.7 Protection Quantities
2.7.1 ICRP Publication 26
2.7.2 ICRP Publication 60
2.7.3 ICRP Publication 103
2.8 Operational Quantities
2.8.1 Ambient Dose Equivalent
2.8.2 Personal Dose Equivalent
References