Measurement and Detection of Radiation

5. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-04282-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 642 Seiten, Format (B × H): 256 mm x 204 mm, Gewicht: 1460 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tsoulfanidis, Nicholas

Landsberger, Sheldon

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Bildgebende Verfahren, Nuklearmedizin, Strahlentherapie Nuklearmedizin, PET, Radiotherapie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Bildgebende Verfahren, Nuklearmedizin, Strahlentherapie Radiologie, Bildgebende Verfahren
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Energie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Kernphysik

Über Autor(innen)

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.