Radiation

Fundamentals, Applications, Risks, and Safety

Ilya Obodovskiy
Elsevier S&T
720 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0444639790
April 2019

This book is devoted to the effect of small doses of radiation on the body. To understand the basic effects of radiation on humans, the book contains the necessary information from an atomic, molecular and nuclear physics, as well as from biochemistry and biology. Special attention is paid to the issues that are either not considered or discussed very briefly in existing literature. Examples include the ionization of inner atomic shells that play an essential role in radiological processes, and the questions of transformation of the energy of ionizing radiation in matter.