Radiation Protection and Dosimetry

✍ Scribed by Michael G. Stabin (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 389
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This comprehensive text provides an overview of all relevant topics in the field of radiation protection (health physics). Radiation Protection and Dosimetry serves as an essential handbook for practicing health physics professionals, and is also ideal as a teaching text for courses at the university level. The book is organized to introduce the reader to basic principles of radiation decay and interactions, to review current knowledge and historical aspects of the biological effects of radiation, and to cover important operational topics such as radiation shielding and dosimetry. In addition to presenting the most up to date treatment of the topics and references to the literature, most chapters contain numerical problems with their solutions for use in teaching or self assessment. One chapter is devoted to Environmental Health Physics, which was written in collaboration with leading professionals in the area.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction to Health Physics....Pages 1-4
Scientific Fundamentals....Pages 5-17
Radioactive Atoms–Nature and Behavior....Pages 18-42
Interaction of Radiation with Matter....Pages 43-66
Quantities and Units in Radiation Protection....Pages 67-74
Biological Effects of Radiation....Pages 75-104
The Basis for Regulation of Radiation Exposure....Pages 105-131
Health Physics Instrumentation....Pages 132-177
External Dose Assessment....Pages 178-204
Internal Dose Assessment....Pages 205-243
Radiation Protection Practice/Evaluation....Pages 244-308
Environmental Monitoring for Radiation....Pages 309-347
Nonionizing Radiation....Pages 348-373
Back Matter....Pages 374-378

✦ Subjects

Biophysics and Biological Physics;Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons;Nuclear Engineering