Measurement and Detection of Radiation

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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.

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.

New to the Fifth Edition:

• Expanded chapters on semiconductor detectors, data analysis methods, health physics fundamentals, and nuclear forensics.
• Updated references and bibliographies.
• New and expanded problems.

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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