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Advanced materials and techniques for radiation dosimetry.


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Advanced materials Advanced Materials is a leading peer-reviewed materials science journal published every two weeks. Advanced Materials includes Communications, Reviews, and Feature Articles from the cutting edge of materials science, including topics in chemistry, physics,  and techniques for radiation dosimetry dosimetry /do·sim·e·try/ (do-sim´e-tre) scientific determination of amount, rate, and distribution of radiation emitted from a source of ionizing radiation, in biological d. .

Ed. by Khalil Arshak and Olga Korostynska.

Artech House

2006

207 pages

$139.00

Hardcover

QC795

Physicists and other scientists at or associated with the University of Limerick The university is located along the River Shannon, on a 200 acre (0.8 km²) site in the 600 acre (2.4 km²) National Technological Park at Plassey, 5 km from Limerick city centre. The university has currently in excess of 11,000 full-time undergraduate students and 1,500 part-time students.  in Ireland alert readers to the modern body of knowledge of radiation sensors, focusing on the wide range of gamma radiation dosimeters that are now available or are under development; the most common and emerging dosimetry methods and materials for measuring radiation; and the properties of materials under the influence of ionizing radiation i·on·i·zing radiation
n.
High-energy radiation capable of producing ionization in substances through which it passes.


Ionizing radiation 
. They write for students and engineers with an elementary background in radioactivity and radiation and a basic knowledge of electrical, optical, and structural properties of materials and device operation.

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