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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 Radiation, Fifth Edition provides the most up-to-date and accessible introduction to radiation detector materials, systems, and applications. It also includes more problems and updated references and bibliographies, and step-by-step derivations and numerous examples illustrate key concepts.
Introduction to Radiation Measurements
Errors of Radiation Counting
Review of Atomic and Nuclear Physics
Energy Loss and Penetration of Radiation through Matter
Gas-Filled Detectors
Scintillation Detectors
Semiconductor Detectors
Relative and Absolute Measurements
Introduction to Spectroscopy
Electronics for Radiation Counting
Data Analysis Methods
Photon (γ-Ray and X-Ray) Spectroscopy
Charged-Particle Spectroscopy
Neutron Detection and Spectroscopy
Activation Analysis and Related Techniques
Health Physics Fundamentals
Nuclear Forensics
Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation