Product Description 
As useful to students and nuclear professionals as its popular predecessors, this fifth edition provides the most up-to-date and accessible introduction to radiation detector materials, systems, and applications. There have been many advances in the field of radiation detection, most notably in practical applications. Incorporating these important developments, Measurement and Detection of Radiation, Fifth Edition provides the most up-to-date and accessible introduction to radiation detector materials, systems, and applications. It also includes more problems and updated references and bibliographies, and step-by-step derivations and numerous examples illustrate key concepts. 
New to the Fifth Edition:• Expanded chapters on semiconductor detectors, data analysis methods, health physics fundamentals, and nuclear forensics.• Updated references and bibliographies.• New and expanded problems. 
 About the Author 
Nicholas Tsoulfanidis is a nuclear engineering professor emeritus of the Missouri University of Science & Technology and an adjunct professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. 
Sheldon Landsberger is a professor in the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he currently holds the Robert B. Trull Chair in Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering.

Measurement and Detection of Radiation

Science & Math

Tsoulfanidis, Nicholas

Landsberger, Sheldon

Physics

CRC-Press

A Sound Introduction to Radiation Detection and Measurement for Newcomers to Nuclear Science and Engineering Since the publication of the bestselling third edition, there have been advances in the field of radiation detection, most notably in practical applications. Incorporating these important developments, Measurement and Detection of Radiation, Fourth Edition provides the most up-to-date and accessible introduction to radiation detector materials, systems, and applications. New to the Fourth Edition <ul>
<li>New chapters on nuclear forensics and nuclear medicine instrumentation, covering basic principles and applications as well as open-ended problems that encourage more in-depth research </li> <li>Updated references and bibliographies</li> <li>New and expanded problems </li>
</ul> As useful to students and nuclear professionals as its popular predecessors, this fourth edition continues to carefully explain the latest radiation detector technology and measurement techniques. It also discusses the correct ways to perform measurements and analyze results following current health physics procedures.

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Measurement and Detection of Radiation

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Measurement and Detection of Radiation