This thoroughly updated and expanded edition features two new chapters on statistics for health physics and on environmental radioactivity, particularly concerning radon and radon daughters. Fresh material includes: a derivation of the stopping-power formula for heavy charged particles in the impulse approximation, a detailed discussion of beta-particle track structure and penetration in matter, an extensive description of the various interaction coefficients for photons, several new worked examples and additional end-of-chapter problems.
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"What can I say? The second edition of 'Atoms, Radiation, and Radiation Protection' is much better than the first edition, and the first edition was great. [...] It is [...] one of the finest graduate-level texts on radiation protection. For someone teaching a graduate course on radiation protection, this is a 'must have' book. [...] Everything you might want or need on the road to understanding radiation interaction is clearly and concisely handled. [...] Don't think this is a book for graduate students and teachers alone, however; it is a fine reference for anyone working in radiation protection."
Physics Today
"The strength of the book lies in its unique analyses of fundamental particle track structure, including Monte Carlo computations, the detail of the important stochastical nature of the interactions, manifest in microdosimetry, and their consequences in radiobiological effects of setting up the criteria for radiation protection."
Radiation and Environmental Biophysics
"This book is an excellent text for graduate students in health physics, as it contains an appropriately detailed discussion about atomic and nuclear physics for such students. [...] Major strengths of the book are that it contains rigorous discussions about radioactive decay, interaction of radiation with matter, statistics of counting and methods for shielding calculations.
The Journal of Nuclear Medicine
"What can I say? The second edition of 'Atoms, Radiation, and Radiation Protection' is much better than the first edition, and the first edition was great. [...] It is [...] one of the finest graduate-level texts on radiation protection. For someone teaching a graduate course on radiation protection, this is a 'must have' book. [...] Everything you might want or need on the road to understanding radiation interaction is clearly and concisely handled. [...] Don't think this is a book for graduate students and teachers alone, however; it is a fine reference for anyone working in radiation protection."
Physics Today
"The strength of the book lies in its unique analyses of fundamental particle track structure, including Monte Carlo computations, the detail of the important stochastical nature of the interactions, manifest in microdosimetry, and their consequences in radiobiological effects of setting up the criteria for radiation protection."
Radiation and Environmental Biophysics
"This book is an excellent text for graduate students in health physics, as it contains an appropriately detailed discussion about atomic and nuclear physics for such students. [...] Major strengths of the book are that it contains rigorous discussions about radioactive decay, interaction of radiation with matter, statistics of counting and methods for shielding calculations.
The Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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Atoms, Radiation, and Radiation Protection offers professionals and advanced students a comprehensive background in the major concepts of radiation and radiation protection. Covering both the basic physics of radiation and its applications, it provides a lucid and coherent account of the origins and properties of the different kinds of ionizing radiation, its detection and measurement, and the procedures used to protect people and the environment from its harmful effects. This book illustrates the basic physical principles with an abundance of practical, worked-out examples, numerical problems, real world applications, and data. This thoroughly updated Second Edition includes expanded treatment of biological effects, radon, risk assessment, and statistics.
Researchers, administrators, and graduate students in health physics, environmental sciences, nuclear engineering, medical physics, and other fields involved with ionizing radiation will find Atoms, Radiation, and Radiation Protection an invaluable guide to a vitally important area.
Researchers, administrators, and graduate students in health physics, environmental sciences, nuclear engineering, medical physics, and other fields involved with ionizing radiation will find Atoms, Radiation, and Radiation Protection an invaluable guide to a vitally important area.
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As the nineteenth century drew to a close, man's physical understanding of the world appeared to rest on firm foundations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minimum detectable true activity, minimum significant measured activity, uncollided photons, committed equivalent dose, constant fluence rate, effective threshold energy, restricted stopping power, collisional stopping power, specific effective energy, lineal energy, secondary protective barrier, net count rate, mass stopping power, unit fluence, primary protective barrier, energy fluence rate, specific absorbed fractions, committed effective dose, radiative stopping power, relative count rate, gross counts, mean excitation energy, transfer compartment, monoenergetic neutrons, neutron energy spectrum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Monte Carlo, International Commission, National Council, Department of Energy, Martin Marietta Energy Systems, United States, Health Phys, Pergamon Press, National Bureau of Standards Handbook, Effects of Atomic Radiation, National Research Council, Repeat Problem, United Nations Scientific Committee, Boca Raton, Courtesy James, National Academy of Sciences, Academic Press, American Institute of Physics, National Academy Press, Physics Today, Principles of Radiation Protection, Radiological Assessment, Bureau of Radiological Health, Englewood Cliffs New!
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As the nineteenth century drew to a close, man's physical understanding of the world appeared to rest on firm foundations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minimum detectable true activity, minimum significant measured activity, uncollided photons, committed equivalent dose, constant fluence rate, effective threshold energy, restricted stopping power, collisional stopping power, specific effective energy, lineal energy, secondary protective barrier, net count rate, mass stopping power, unit fluence, primary protective barrier, energy fluence rate, specific absorbed fractions, committed effective dose, radiative stopping power, relative count rate, gross counts, mean excitation energy, transfer compartment, monoenergetic neutrons, neutron energy spectrum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Monte Carlo, International Commission, National Council, Department of Energy, Martin Marietta Energy Systems, United States, Health Phys, Pergamon Press, National Bureau of Standards Handbook, Effects of Atomic Radiation, National Research Council, Repeat Problem, United Nations Scientific Committee, Boca Raton, Courtesy James, National Academy of Sciences, Academic Press, American Institute of Physics, National Academy Press, Physics Today, Principles of Radiation Protection, Radiological Assessment, Bureau of Radiological Health, Englewood Cliffs New!
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- Introduction to Radiological Physics and Radiation Dosimetry by Frank Herbert Attix on 9 pages
- Introduction to Health Physics by Herman Cember on 5 pages
- Atomic Nucleus by Robley Dunglison Evans on 4 pages
- Quantities and Units (Icru Report, No 33) by International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements on 4 pages
- Measurement and Detection of Radiation, Third Edition by Nicholas Tsoulfanidis on page 283, page 336, and page 377
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- Basic Health Physics: Problems and Solutions by Joseph John Bevelacqua on 23 pages
- CRC Handbook of Management of Radiation Protection Programs, Second Edition by Kenneth L. Miller on 4 pages
- Radiation Safety in Nuclear Medicine by Max H. Lombardi on page 48, page 143, and page 172
- Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Terrorism: Emergency Response and Public Protection by Mark E. Byrnes on page 54, and page 103
- Physics and Radiobiology of Nuclear Medicine by Gopal B. Saha on page 10, and page 20
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