Health physics and radiological health
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ,
c2012
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Estimates of radiation doses from various sources of exposure
- 2. Commonly used units, signs, symbols, conversion factors, and constants
- 3. Rules-of-thumb as useful equations
- 4. Standards and guidances for limiting ionizing radiation exposure
- 5. Interaction of radiation with matter
- 6. Exposure and shielding from external radiation
- 7. Neutron production, shielding, and activation
- 8. Radionuclide data
- 9. Radiation measurement instruments
- 10. Patient doses in the healing arts
- 11. Operational health physics
- 12. Bioassay and radiobiological data
- 13. Radiation dosimetry
- 14. Ionizing radiation bioeffects and risks
- 15. Non-ionizing radiation