Introduction to Health Physics, Fifth Edition

✍ Scribed by Thomas E. Johnson

• Publisher: McGraw Hill / Medical
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1046
• Series: A & L Allied Health
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Understand every important aspect of health physics with this complete overview of the field

If it's an important topic in the field of health physics, you will find expert, well-written discussion of it in this trusted text. Introduction to Health Physics, Fifth Edition spans the entire scope of the field and offers an effective problem-solving approach that once mastered will serve you throughout your career. Logically divided into fourteen sections, beginning with a review of physical principles, coverage includes radiation sources, radiation dosimetry, radiation safety guidelines, evaluation of safety measures, and more.

The Fifth Edition has been updated to reflect the many changes in the practice of ionizing and nonionizing radiation safety, in calculation methodology, and in the methods for demonstrating compliance with the safety standards that have occurred since publication of the previous edition.

Learning and teaching aids include more than 470 Homework Problems and 175 Example Problems. The text concludes with seven valuable appendices, including Values of Some Useful Constants, Table of the Elements, and The Reference Person Overall Specifications.

There truly is no better way to master the essentials of the dynamic field of health physics than Introduction to Health Physics, Fifth Edition.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
1.   IN TRODUCTION
2.   REVIEW OF PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES
Mechanics
Relativistic Effects Review
Electricity
Energy Transfer
Quantum Theory
Summary
Problems
Suggested Readings
3.   ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR STRUCTURE
Atomic Structure
The Nucleus
Summary
Problems
Suggested Readings
4.   RADIATION SOURCES
Radioactivity
Transformation Mechanisms
Transformation Kinetics
Activity
Naturally Occurring Radiation
Serial Transformation
Summary
Problems
Suggested Readings
5.   INTERACTION OF RADIATION WITH MATTER
Beta Particles (Beta Rays)
Alpha Particles
Gamma Rays
Neutrons
Summary
Problems
Suggested Readings
6.   RADIATION DOSIMETRY
Units
External Exposure
Internally Deposited Radionuclides
External Exposure: Neutrons
Summary
Problems
Suggested Readings
7.   BIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR RADIATION SAFETY
Dose–Response Characteristics
The Physiological Basis for Internal Dosimetry
Radiation Effects: Deterministic
Radiation Effects: Stochastic
Radiation-Weighted Dose Units: The Sievert and The Rem
Summary
Problems
Suggested Readings
8.   RADIATION SAFETY GUIDES
Organizations That Set Standards
Philosophy of Radiation Safety
ICRP Basic Radiation Safety Criteria
United States Nuclear Regulatory Program
Ecological Radiation Safety
Summary
Problems
Suggested Readings
9.   HEALTH PHYSICS INSTRUMENTATION
Radiation Detectors
Particle-Counting Instruments
Dose-Measuring Instruments
Neutron Measurements
Calibration
Counting Statistics
Summary
Problems
Suggested Readings
10.   EXTERNAL RADIATION SAFETY
Basic Principles
Optimization
Summary
Problems
Suggested Readings
11.   INTERNAL RADIATION SAFETY
Internal Radiation
Principles of Control
Surface Contamination Limits
Waste Management
Assessment of Hazard
Optimization
Summary
Problems
Suggested Readings
12.   CRITICALITY
Criticality Hazard
Nuclear Fission
Criticality
Nuclear Reactor
Criticality Control
Summary
Problems
Suggested Readings
13.   EVALUATION OF RADIATION SAFETY MEASURES
Medical Surveillance
Estimation of Internally Deposited Radioactivity
Individual Monitoring
Radiation and Contamination Surveys
Air Sampling
Continuous Environmental Monitoring
Combined Exposures
Source Control
Summary
Problems
Suggested Readings
14.   NONIONIZING RADIATION SAFETY
Units
UV Light
Lasers
Radiofrequency Radiation and Microwaves
Principles of Radiation Safety
Summary
Problems
Suggested Readings
Answers to Problems
Appendix A   Values of Some Useful Constants
Appendix B   Table of the Elements
Appendix C   The Reference Person Overall Specifications
Appendix D   Specific Absorbed Fraction of Photon Energy
Appendix E   Total Mass Attenuation Coefficient, μ/ρ, cm2/g
Appendix F   Mass Energy Absorption Coefficient, μa/ρ, cm2/g
Appendix G   Mass Stopping Power in Units of cm2/g for Monoenergetic Electrons
Index