Description
This book was written to provide a concise account of the applications of nuclear physics to medical and biological science. During the 10 years since the first edition appeared it seems to have fulfilled this aim, and its coverage appears to be about right for those undergraduates and postgraduates who are devoting a substantial part of their effort to medical physics, as well as those students who are looking primarily for an introduction to nuclear physics together with an account of some of the ways in which it impinges on the work of other scientists.

About half the book is devoted to laying the foundations of nuclear and radiation physics, and the remainder provides an introduction to the application of radiation physics to the biomedical field. It might be added that the first half is concerned as much with the behavior of ionizing radiation as with the properties of the atomic nucleus, thereby justifying the change of title (from ‘nuclear physics’ to ‘radiation physics’) for this new edition.