As useful to students and nuclear professionals as its popular predecessors, this fifth edition provides the most up-to-date and accessible introduction to radiation detector materials, systems, and applications.

1. Introduction to Radiation Measurements
2. Errors of Radiation Counting
3. Review of Atomic and Nuclear Physics
4. Energy Loss and Penetration of Radiation through Matter
5. Gas-Filled Detectors
6. Scintillation Detectors
7. Semiconductor Detectors
8. Relative and Absolute Measurements
9. Introduction to Spectroscopy
10. Electronics for Radiation Counting
11. Data Analysis Methods
12. Photon (¿-Ray and X-Ray) Spectroscopy
13. Charged-Particle Spectroscopy
14. Neutron Detection and Spectroscopy
15. Activation Analysis and Related Techniques
16. Health Physics Fundamentals
17. Nuclear Forensics
18. Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation

Nicholas Tsoulfanidis is a nuclear engineering professor emeritus of the Missouri University of Science & Technology and an adjunct professor at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Sheldon Landsberger is a professor in the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he currently holds the Robert B. Trull Chair in Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering.