5th Edition
Measurement and Detection of Radiation
642 Pages
29 Color & 380 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
642 Pages
29 Color & 380 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
642 Pages
29 Color & 380 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
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As useful to students and nuclear professionals as its popular predecessors, this fifth edition provides the most up-to-date and accessible introduction to radiation detector materials, systems, and applications. There have been many advances in the field of radiation detection, most notably in practical applications. Incorporating these important developments, Measurement and Detection of... Read more
1. Introduction to Radiation Measurements
2. Errors of Radiation Counting
3. Review of Atomic and Nuclear Physics
4. Energy Loss and Penetration of Radiation through Matter
5. Gas-Filled Detectors
6. Scintillation Detectors
7. Semiconductor Detectors
8. Relative and Absolute Measurements
9. Introduction to Spectroscopy
10. Electronics for Radiation Counting
11. Data Analysis Methods
12. Photon (γ-Ray and X-Ray) Spectroscopy
13. Charged-Particle Spectroscopy
14. Neutron Detection and Spectroscopy
15. Activation Analysis and Related Techniques
16. Health Physics Fundamentals
17. Nuclear Forensics
18. Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation
Biography
Nicholas Tsoulfanidis is a nuclear engineering professor emeritus of the Missouri University of Science & Technology and an adjunct professor at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Sheldon Landsberger is a professor in the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he currently holds the Robert B. Trull Chair in Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering.
