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A highly practical reference for health physicists and other professionals, addressing practical problems in radiation protection, this new edition has been completely revised, updated and supplemented by such new sections as log-normal distribution and digital radiography, as well as new chapters on internal radiation dose and the environmental transport of radionuclides. Designed for readers with limited as well as basic science backgrounds, the handbook presents clear, thorough and up-to-date explanations of the basic physics necessary. It provides an overview of the major discoveries in radiation physics, plus extensive discussion of radioactivity, including sources and materials, as well as calculational methods for radiation exposure, comprehensive appendices and more than 400 figures. The text draws substantially on current resource data available, which is cross-referenced to standard compendiums, providing decay schemes and emission energies for approximately 100 of the most common radionuclides encountered by practitioners. Excerpts from the Chart of the Nuclides, activation cross sections, fission yields, fission-product chains, photon attenuation coefficients, and nuclear masses are also provided. Throughout, the author emphasizes applied concepts and carefully illustrates all topics using real-world examples as well as exercises. A much-needed working resource for health physicists and other radiation protection professionals.

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This revised and expanded second edition handbook can easily be used as a textbook for undergraduate nuclear engineering or health physics students. (Health Physics, February 2007) Martin covers the field of nuclear physics and many of its applications very well...a good teaching tool. (CHOICE, January 2007) This is a very good text on basic health physics. (Doody's Health Services) ...an excellent book. It contains a significant amount of valuable information and will serve as an excellent reference on the bookshelf of medical physicists. (Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Fall 2006)

This revised and expanded second edition handbook can easily be used as a textbook for undergraduate nuclear engineering or health physics students. (Health Physics, February 2007) Martin covers the field of nuclear physics and many of its applications very well...a good teaching tool. (CHOICE, January 2007) This is a very good text on basic health physics. (Doody's Health Services) ...an excellent book. It contains a significant amount of valuable information and will serve as an excellent reference on the bookshelf of medical physicists. (Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Fall 2006)

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JAMES E. MARTIN, PhD, CHP, is Associate Professor (Emeritus) at the University of Michigan where he has done research and teaching on environmental and public health aspects of radiation with an emphasis on radiation physics since 1982. He also served 25 years (1957-81) with the U.S. Public Health Service and Environmental Protection Agency, doing environmental assessments of radioactive materials and of protection standards. His doctorate is in Radiological Health. Professor Martin is certified in Health Physics by the American Board of Health Physics and has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers and numerous articles and reports. Advisory committee memberships include two National Academy of Science committees, the Science Advisory Board of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Energy.

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