Radioactivity measurements: principles and practice. Revised ed.

The first two chapters of this book describe the properties of radionuclides, the quantities and units of radiation and methods of measurement, including those needed for radiation protection. Chapter 3 presents the principles of radioactivity measurements and the statistical treatments of the measurement data. Chapter 4 deals with radiation interactions with matter and with the many detectors and analytical instruments used in radionuclide metrology. Chapter 5 covers the particle-counting methods and how they are applied. Chapter 6 has a survey of electrical and electronic devices and methods for their use in measuring and counting radiation pulses and performing coincidence and anticoincidence counting using logic circuits, and of scalers, multichannel analyzers and gating devices, as well as low-level measuring systems. Chapter 7 offers recommendations for setting up radioactivity calibration laboratories. (UK)