Principles of Radiation Protection

By Paul de Luca, Bryan P Bednarz, Bryan Bednarz

The importance of reducing patient and worker exposure to ionizing radiation is more widely recognized, and now comes into the fore whenever new therapeutic treatment techniques are being developed. This textbook provides an overview of fundamentals with sufficient depth to be useful to developers, users, and regulators of new technologies and applications employing radiation. It addresses the fundamental aspects of the interaction of radiation with matter, the complex aspects of radiation dosimetry, various radiation detectors, and the broad area of radiation effects on humans, animals and cells.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138196770
• ISBN13: 9781138196773
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 350 Pages