Bevelacqua, Joseph John,  1949- <br/><br/>
Basic health physics :  problems and solutions / 
Joseph John Bevelacqua 
 - 2nd, updated and enl. ed. 
 - Weinheim :  Wiley-VCH,  c2010. 
 - xxiii, 743 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Radiation protection fundamentals -- Introduction to radiation protection -- Dosimetric quantities and units -- Natural and human-made sources of radiation exposure -- Standards and regulations -- Biological effects of ionizing radiation -- Instrumentation -- External dosimetry: basic source geometries and attenuation relationships -- Internal dosimetry -- ALARA and shielding -- Counting statistics -- Applications -- Monitoring and interpretation -- Operational health physics -- Transportation and waste -- Nuclear emergencies -- Specialty health physics areas -- Medical health physics -- University health physics -- Fuel cycle health physics -- Research reactor health physics -- Power reactor health physics -- Environmental health physics -- Accelerator health physics -- Non-ionizing radiation -- Answers and solutions 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783527408238 (hbk.)  RM498.02 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medical physics