Basic health physics problems and solutions - Bevelacqua, Joseph John 1949- (Weinheim Wiley-VCH, 2010)
Radiation protection fundamentals -- Introduction to radiation protection -- Dosimetric quantities and units -- Natural and human-made sources of radiation exposure -- Standards and regulations -- Biological effects of ionizing radiation -- Instrumentation -- External dosimetry: basic source geometries and attenuation relationships -- Internal dosimetry -- ALARA and shielding -- Counting statistics -- Applications -- Monitoring and interpretation -- Operational health physics -- Transportation and waste -- Nuclear emergencies -- Specialty health physics areas -- Medical health physics -- University health physics -- Fuel cycle health physics -- Research reactor health physics -- Power reactor health physics -- Environmental health physics -- Accelerator health physics -- Non-ionizing radiation -- Answers and solutions.
Originally published: New York: Wiley, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Medical physics; Health Physics -- methods -- Problems and Exercises; Radiation Protection -- Problems and Exercises