TY - BOOK AU - Shleien,Bernard AU - Birky,Brian Kent AU - Johnson,Thomas E. TI - Health physics and radiological health SN - 1609134192 U1 - 616.0757 PY - 2012/// CY - Philadelphia PB - Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins KW - Health Physics KW - Tables KW - Radiation Dosage KW - Radiation Protection KW - Radiology, Medical KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Medical physics N1 - Rev. ed. of: Handbook of health physics and radiological health / edited by Bernard Shleien, Lester A. Slaback Jr., Brian Kent Birky. 3rd ed. c1998. - Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index; Estimates of radiation doses from various sources of exposure -- Commonly used units, signs, symbols, conversion factors, and constants -- Rules-of-thumb as useful equations -- Standards and guidances for limiting ionizing radiation exposure -- Interaction of radiation with matter -- Exposure and shielding from external radiation -- Neutron production, shielding, and activation -- Radionuclide data -- Radiation measurement instruments -- Patient doses in the healing arts -- Operational health physics -- Bioassay and radiobiological data -- Radiation dosimetry -- Ionizing radiation bioeffects and risks -- Non-ionizing radiation ER -