Health physics and radiological health / / Thomas E. Johnson, Brian K. Birky ; consulting editor, Bernard Shleien.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia, PA : : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,, [2012] 2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1287 pages) :; illustrations |
| Notes: | Rev. ed. of: Handbook of health physics and radiological health / edited by Bernard Shleien, Lester A. Slaback Jr., Brian Kent Birky. 3rd ed. c1998. |
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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.