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Radiation physics with applications in medicine and biology
- Title
- Radiation physics with applications in medicine and biology / N.A. Dyson.
- Author
- Dyson, N. A. (Norman Allen), 1929-
- Publication
- New York : E. Horwood, 1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | R895 .D96 1993 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 256 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Ellis Horwood series in physics and its applications
- Uniform Title
- Ellis Horwood series in physics and its applications.
- Subject
- Note
- Rev. ed. of: An introduction to nuclear physics, with applications in medicine and biology. 1981.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Interactions between radiation and matter -- Ch. 2. Nuclear reactions and the production of radioisotopes -- Ch. 3. Instrumentation: an introduction to [alpha]-, [beta]- and [gamma]-radiation detectors -- Ch. 4. The radiation from nuclear decay -- Ch. 5. Applications of radioisotopes in medicine and biology -- Ch. 6. Neutrons in biology and clinical medicine -- Ch. 7. Other accelerator-based applications in medicine and biology -- Ch. 8. The physical basis of radiation protection -- App. A1. The Bethe-Bloch expression for energy-loss -- App. A2. The Klein-Nishina formula -- App. A3. The semi-empirical mass formula -- App. A4. The Breit-Wigner formula -- App. A5. Radioactive transformations: growth and decay.
- ISBN
- 0137511167 (cloth)
- 0137511086 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 93010854
- OCLC
- ocm28022064
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries