Handbook of Health Physics and Radiological Health

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Contributors
Chapter 1 Estimates of Radiation Doses From Various Sources of Exposure
Chapter 2 Commonly Used Units, Signs, Symbols, Conversion Factors and Constants
Chapter 3 Rules-of-Thumb and Useful Equations
Chapter 4 Standards and Guidances for Limiting Ionizing Radiation Exposure
Chapter 5 Interaction of Radiation With Matter
Chapter 6 Exposure and Shielding From External Radiation
Chapter 7 Neutron Production, Shielding and Activation
Chapter 8 Radionuclide Data
Chapter 9 Radiation Measurement Instruments
Chapter 10 Patient Doses in the Healing Arts
Chapter 11 Operational Health Physics
Chapter 12 Bioassay and Radiobiological Data
Chapter 13 Radiation Dosimetry
Chapter 14 Nuclear Transportation Including Shipment of Low-Level Waste
Chapter 15 Ionizing Radiation Bioeffects and Risks
Chapter 16 Non-Ionizing Radiation
Glossaries
Ionizing Radiation
Light and Lasers
Definitions of Quality Assurance Terms
Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields
Index
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CONTRIBUTORS
Robert E. Alexander
Occupational Radiation Standards
Keith F. Eckerman
Radiation Dose Factors & Decay Products
David S. Kocher
Public and Environmental Standards and Guidelines
Jack S. Krohmer
Medical Radiation
William A. Miller
Radiation Risks
Timothy W. Osborne
Waste Disposal
Harold T. Peterson, Jr.
Environmental Monitoring and Atmospheric Dispersion
Robert Phillips
Medical Radiation Standards
Alan K. Roecklein
Occupational Radiation Standards
Genevieve S. Roessler
Glossaries
Ralph H. Thomas
Accelerator Health Physics