TY - BOOK AU - Bevelacqua,Joseph John TI - Basic health physics: problems and solutions SN - 9783527408238 (hbk.) PY - 2010/// CY - Weinheim PB - Wiley-VCH KW - Medical physics N1 - 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 ER -