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RECORD NUMBER: 16 OF 184| Main Title | Basic health physics : problems and solutions / | |||||||||||||||||
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| Author | Bevelacqua, Joseph John, | |||||||||||||||||
| Publisher | Wiley-VCH Verlag, | |||||||||||||||||
| Year Published | 2010 | |||||||||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 429605169 | |||||||||||||||||
| ISBN | 9783527408238; 3527408231 | |||||||||||||||||
| Subjects | Medical physics ; Health Physics ; Radiation Protection | |||||||||||||||||
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| Edition | 2nd, updated, and enl. ed. | |||||||||||||||||
| Collation | xxiii, 743 pages | |||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Contents Notes | Radiation protection fundamentals -- Introduction to radiation protection -- Dosimetric quantities and units -- Natural and human-made sources of radiation exposure -- Standards and regulations -- Biological effects of ionizing radiation -- Instrumentation -- External dosimetry: basic source geometries and attenuation relationships -- Internal dosimetry -- ALARA and shielding -- Counting statistics -- Applications -- Monitoring and interpretation -- Operational health physics -- Transportation and waste -- Nuclear emergencies -- Specialty health physics areas -- Medical health physics -- University health physics -- Fuel cycle health physics -- Research reactor health physics -- Power reactor health physics -- Environmental health physics -- Accelerator health physics -- Non-ionizing radiation -- Answers and solutions. |