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Handbook of Health Physics and Radiological Health
Handbook of Health Physics and Radiological Health Author:Bernard Shleien, Lester A. Jr. Slaback Jr., Brian Birky Scinta, Inc The first trade edition of this compilation of health and health physics data meant to be used as a daily reference by practitioners, technologists, and students. 11 U.S. contributors. — Contents: — -- 1. Estimates of radiation doses from various sources of exposure — -- 2. Commonly used units, signs, symbols, conversion factors and con... more »stants
-- 3. Rules-of-thumb and 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. Nuclear transportation including shipment of low-level waste