Health physics and radiological health /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, PA :
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
[2012]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Estimates of radiation doses from various sources of exposure
- Commonly used units, signs, symbols, conversion factors, and constants
- Rules-of-thumb as useful equations
- Standards and guidances for limiting ionizing radiation exposure
- Interaction of radiation with matter
- Exposure and shielding from external radiation
- Neutron production, shielding, and activation
- Radionuclide data
- Radiation measurement instruments
- Patient doses in the healing arts
- Operational health physics
- Bioassay and radiobiological data
- Radiation dosimetry
- Ionizing radiation bioeffects and risks
- Non-ionizing radiation.