Radiation Detection and Measurement |  | Author: Glenn F. Knoll
Publisher: Wiley
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3
Pages: 816
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Dimensions (in): 10 x 8.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0471073385
Dewey Decimal Number: 539.77
EAN: 9780471073383
ASIN: 0471073385
Publication Date: January 5, 2000
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Product Description
A Classic Text on Radiation Detection and Measurement Now Updated and Expanded Building on the proven success of this widely-used text, the Third Edition will provide you with a clear understanding of the methods and instrumentation used in the detection and measurement of ionizing radiation. It provides in-depth coverage of the basic principles of radiation detection as well as illustrating their application in a full set of modern instruments. In addition to a complete description of well-established detection and spectroscopic methods, many recently developed approaches are also explored. These include extensive new discussions of semiconductor detectors with unique properties, recently developed scintillation materials and photomultiplier tubes, and several gas-filled detectors of new design. Many other updates and additions have been made throughout the text and two appendices have been added. Over 100 new figures and tables have been included. Key Features of the Third Edition
* Every chapter has been updated with extensive addition of new references to relevant articles in the scientific literature.
* A number of new detection techniques have been added, strengthening the status of the text as the most comprehensive coverage of the topic to be found in any single book.
* The writing style has maintained the readability that has attracted favorable response from readers and reviewers of the earlier editions.
* The author uses his extensive research experience in radiation measurements, nuclear instrumentation, and radiation imaging to provide you with an invaluable resource.
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 John Wiley & Sons, Inc sank the rating October 28, 2009
Not Dr. Asimov! (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
A great book but with many, many, and not all corrected in the extensive, yet not definitive, errata list. Make sure you contact the editor for it. I mean, a table of content with page references that don't match, whole chunk of text missing at the very beginning of chapter 14, and then missing words (easy to spot, they left a blank! And I have not read it from cover to cover yet as this turned me off, so who knows what else got missed. And if you are a student, wait until you try to use a formula that has not been printed correctly. Great author, great text, lousy editing and printing. Maybe wait for the fourth edition?
The book smells funny October 24, 2009
Z. Xiao (US)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The quality is fine, but it reeeeeaaaaaally stinks. and somehow it is thinner than the one I saw at the book store.
wonderful refence January 13, 2007
Chewie (W-S, NC)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's a wonderful reference for a practiing medical/healt physicist. It's concise but deep in terms of cotent.
Good overview of the field. August 7, 2002
Patrick Van Esch (Grenoble, France)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is a must for anyone working in the field of
radiation detection, and contains a clear, readable description
of the working principles of quite a lot of detector types.
The weaker point is the description of the associated front
end (analogue) electronics that goes with those detectors: it
is a bit concise.
 A good point for starting and for continuing September 13, 2000
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have used this book for my studies and for working, and it's really beautiful: it starts with basic principles and after few pages you are deep inside the detector, and you start feeling it. The next step is to take an article of Nucl. Instr. Methods and read it.
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