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Applied Physics of External Radiation Exposure - Dosimetry and Radiation Protection (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Applied Physics of External Radiation Exposure - Dosimetry and Radiation Protection (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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This book describes the interaction of living matter with photons,
neutrons, charged particles, electrons and ions. The authors are
specialists in the field of radiation protection. The book
synthesizes many years of experiments with external radiation
exposure in the fields of dosimetry and radiation shielding in
medical, industrial and research fields. It presents the basic
physical concepts including dosimetry and offers a number of tools
to be used by students, engineers and technicians to assess the
radiological risk and the means to avoid them by calculating the
appropriate shields. The theory of radiation interaction in matter
is presented together with empirical formulas and abacus. Numerous
numerical applications are treated to illustrate the different
topics. The state of the art in radiation protection and dosimetry
is presented in detail, especially in the field of simulation codes
for external exposure to radiation, medical projects and advanced
research. Moreover, important data spread in different up to date
references are presented in this book. The book deals also with
accelerators, X-rays facilities, sealed sources, dosimetry, Monte
Carlo simulation and radiation regulation. Each chapter is split in
two parts depending on the level of details the readers want to
focus on. The first part, accessible to a large public, provides a
lot of simple examples to help understanding the physics concepts
under radiation external exposure. The second part, called
"Additional Information" is not mandatory; it aims on explaining
topics more deeply, often using mathematical formulations. The book
treats fundamental radiometric and dosimetric quantities to
describe the interaction in materials under the aspects of absorbed
dose processes in tissues. Definitions and applications on limited
and operational radiation protection quantities are given. An
important aspect are practical engineering tools in industrial,
medical and research domains. Source characterization and shielding
design are addressed. Also more "exotic" topics, such as ultra
intense laser and new generation accelerators, are treated. The
state of the art is presented to help the reader to work with the
book in a self-consistent way. The basic knowledge necessary to
apply Monte Carlo methods in the field of radiation protection and
dosimetry for external radiation exposure is provided. Coverage of
topics such as variance reduction, pseudo-random number generation
and statistic estimators make the book useful even to experienced
Monte Carlo practitioners. Solved problems help the reader to
understand the Monte Carlo process. The book is meant to be used by
researchers, engineers and medical physicist. It is also valuable
to technicians and students.
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