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Radiation Detection Engineering: Principles, Instrumentation, and Measurement for Nuclear and Health Physics Applications
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 462
Weight: 2.34
Height: 0.93 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Master the physics, detector technologies, electronics, and measurement methods behind modern radiation detection systems.
Radiation Detection Engineering: Principles, Instrumentation, and Measurement for Nuclear and Health Physics Applications provides a rigorous, practical treatment of how ionizing radiation is detected, converted into measurable signals, processed electronically, and interpreted for real-world engineering and health-physics applications.
Written for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in nuclear engineering, health physics, and medical physics, while also serving as a reference for practicing engineers and technical professionals, the book connects fundamental radiation physics with the instruments and quantitative measurement techniques used in laboratories, medical facilities, nuclear systems, environmental monitoring, and radiation-protection programs.
Beginning with radioactive decay, radiation fields, and the interactions of charged particles, photons, and neutrons with matter, the text builds the physical foundation needed to understand detector response. It then develops the statistical framework governing radiation measurements, including counting uncertainty, background effects, and detection limits.
A major portion of the book is devoted to the principal detector technologies used throughout nuclear instrumentation:
- Gas-filled detectors, including ionization chambers, proportional counters, and Geiger-Müller systems
- Scintillation detectors, photomultiplier tubes, silicon photomultipliers, and pulse-shape discrimination
- Semiconductor detectors, including silicon, high-purity germanium, and compound-semiconductor technologies
- Neutron detection systems, including thermal- and fast-neutron measurement methods
The book then follows the detector signal through the complete nuclear-electronics chain, explaining charge-sensitive preamplifiers, shaping amplifiers, electronic noise, analog-to-digital conversion, multichannel analyzers, dead time, pileup, and modern digital pulse processing. Readers see how detector physics and electronics work together to determine energy resolution, stability, and count-rate performance.
From there, the discussion advances into gamma-ray and charged-particle spectroscopy, including spectral features, peak analysis, radionuclide identification, detector efficiency, and quantitative measurements. The text emphasizes that a measured spectrum is the product of the entire system-from radiation interaction and detector response to electronics, calibration, and data analysis.
Dedicated coverage of detector calibration, efficiency, resolution, quality assurance, and measurement traceability develops the practices required to obtain defensible quantitative results rather than merely qualitative readings. Radiation dosimetry then connects these measurements with absorbed dose, equivalent dose, effective dose, personnel monitoring, and radiation-protection applications.
The final sections bring the principles together through applications in medical imaging, radiation therapy, nuclear power, industrial measurement, safeguards, homeland-security monitoring, and environmental radiation detection, demonstrating how the same fundamental detector and measurement concepts support a wide range of professional systems.
Throughout the book, concepts are developed as part of a structured working textbook. Chapters include stated learning objectives, step-by-step derivations, worked calculations with units, practice problems, answer material, and summaries of important equations and results, helping readers move from theoretical understanding to practical problem solving.
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