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Practical Gamma-Ray Spectrometry

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I am using this text book as a reference for teaching NUEN 303 and NUEN 633 at Texas A&M University, department of Nuclear Engineering. The book is an excellent resource for all our students. The contents are well structured for anyone to study in an organized or focus/individual manner. It covers the areas that Knoll does not cover, practicality.

A must for any practitioner of gamma-ray spectrometry. This 2nd edition has useful updates, including discussion of Digital Signal Processors (DSP, which to an old timer like me are marvelous innovations). The author provides lucid explanations of everything from how superior-resolution Ge detectors are manufactured to the statistical nuances of spectral data processing. Such a deal!

Gilmore and Hemingway provide the spectrometer user with the wealth of their years experience in assaying gamma samples. Everything from how to set up a germanium crystal spectrometer, how to calibrate, how to count, and how to document for universal acceptance. This is one-stop shopping for gamma spectrometry...including a comprehensive references list at the end of every chapter that provides the reader with their money's worth from this volume.