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Radiation Protection and Shielding

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This chapter contains questions from radiation protection and shielding calculations. The objective of the question and answers is to assess readers’ knowledge and also to provide reference resources to enhance it.

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  1. Office of Radiation Safety, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Max Amurao

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  1. Department of Radiation Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Malcolm Heard

  2. OU Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

    Raghavendiran Boopathy

  3. Dartmouth Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH, USA

    Charles R. Thomas, Jr.

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Amurao, M. (2022). Radiation Protection and Shielding. In: Heard, M., Boopathy, R., Thomas, Jr., C.R. (eds) Absolute Therapeutic Medical Physics Review. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14671-8_9

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