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Introduction to Health Physics
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 612.01448
EAN: 9780071054614
Edition: 3
ISBN: 0071054618
Label: McGraw-Hill Medical
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Medical
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 731
Publication Date: January 01, 1996
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
Studio: McGraw-Hill Medical
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Editorial Review:
This edition continues to provide students with a basic understanding of the biophysical bases of radiation, radiation safety standards, and the key factors in radiation protection. Now includes new coverage of non-ionizing radiation-laser and microwaves, computer use in dose calculation and dose limit recommendations. Emphasizes a problem-solving approach that will serve students into their clinical careers.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - New edition marred by typos and awkward editing
This new edition of the classic text is a disappointment, and it's use as a textbook is not recommended.
For this 3d edition, the list of typographical errors compiled by colleagues and myself stands at four pages and growing. Errors can be found in the text, the chapter problems, and their solutions. Other solutions which are not clearly wrong may inexplicably differ from your own solution at the second significant digit.
Formulae are rarely derived from first principles. One exception ... Read More
Rating:  - Useful general text on radiation protection and safety
In over 25 years since its first edition, this classic textbook has been used to train countless professionals in the fundamentals of radiation protection and safety. This third edition of Cember's work incorporates several fundamental changes in radiation protection standards and methodologies adopted since publication of the second edition in 1983. The third edition has also been expanded to include more recent safety standards for radiofrequency and microwave exposure.
This textbook is useful ... Read More
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