Radiation Detection and Measurement

By Glenn F. Knoll

Book Overview

A Classic Text on Radiation Detection and Measurement Now Updated and Expanded Building on the proven success of this widely-used text, the Third Edition will provide you with a clear understanding of the methods and instrumentation used in the detection and measurement of ionizing radiation. It provides in-depth coverage of the basic principles of radiation detection as well as illustrating their application in a full set of modern instruments. In addition to a complete description of well-established detection and spectroscopic methods, many recently developed approaches are also explored. These include extensive new discussions of semiconductor detectors with unique properties, recently developed scintillation materials and photomultiplier tubes, and several gas-filled detectors of new design. Many other updates and additions have been made throughout the text and two appendices have been added. Over 100 new figures and tables have been included. Key Features of the Third Edition * Every chapter has been updated with extensive addition of new references to relevant articles in the scientific literature. * A number of new detection techniques have been added, strengthening the status of the text as the most comprehensive coverage of the topic to be found in any single book. * The writing style has maintained the readability that has attracted favorable response from readers and reviewers of the earlier editions. * The author uses his extensive research experience in radiation measurements, nuclear instrumentation, and radiation imaging to provide you with an invaluable resource.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471073385
• ISBN13: 9780471073383
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 816 Pages
• Weight: 3.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.4" x 1.2" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

wonderful refence

It's a wonderful reference for a practiing medical/healt physicist. It's concise but deep in terms of cotent.

Good overview of the field.

This book is a must for anyone working in the field of radiation detection, and contains a clear, readable descriptionof the working principles of quite a lot of detector types.The weaker point is the description of the associated frontend (analogue) electronics that goes with those detectors: itis a bit concise.

A good point for starting and for continuing

I have used this book for my studies and for working, and it's really beautiful: it starts with basic principles and after few pages you are deep inside the detector, and you start feeling it. The next step is to take an article of Nucl. Instr. Methods and read it.

Excellent book, detailed on the subject matter and readable

This is an excellent text and considered the prime source for an detailed overview of it's field.

A must-have for any high energy experimental physicist!

This Tome contains so much useful information on the art and science of radiation detection that I hardly can believe I got along without it. Don't let the steep price discourage you. This book is a must-have for any high energy experimental physics graduate student or even undergraduate. It fills many of the gaps between traditional course books and real-world experience and has a series of encyclopedic bibliographies to boot