Principles of radiation protection : a textbook of health physics /
This book is a textbook on health physics and medical radiation.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
[1967]
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| Summary: | This book is a textbook on health physics and medical radiation. |
Table of Contents:
- History of damage and protection from ionizing radiation
- The passage of heavy charged particles, gamma rays and x-rays through matter
- Radiation qualities and units
- They physical basis of radiation dosimetry
- Detection and measurement of ionization
- Ionization methods of mixed radiation dosimetry
- Special methods in radiation dosimetry
- Dose from electrons and beta rays
- Dose from external sources of radiation
- Internal exposure
- Radiation biophysics
- Radiation biology
- Evaluation of human exposure data
- Maximum permissible exposure levels: external and internal
- Health physics instruments
- Prevention of criticality accidents.