ABSTRACT

This book is intended for senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students in physics, nuclear engineering, health physics and nuclear medicine, and for specialized training courses for radiation protection personnel and environmental safety engineers.To keep the size of the book manageable, material has been selected to stress those detectors that are in widespread use. Attempts have also been made to emphasize alternatives available in approaching various measurement problems and to present the criteria by which a choice among these alternatives may be made.

chapter 1|16 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|46 pages

Interaction of Radiation with Matter

chapter 4|39 pages

Gas-Filled Detectors

chapter 5|45 pages

Scintillation Detection Systems

chapter 6|51 pages

Semiconductor Detectors

chapter 7|48 pages

Track Devices

chapter 8|15 pages

Miscellaneous Detectors

chapter 9|33 pages

Neutron Detection

chapter 10|16 pages

Calibration And Standards

chapter 11|23 pages

Electronic Systems