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 …

After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing
radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and …

Radioactive materials have a wide variety of applications and provide a significant benefit to
many essential fields including medicine, industry, agriculture, and research. Actinides in …

The structural and bonding properties of Bi and Ac complexes with cyclen-based chelating
ligands have been studied using relativistic DFT calculations in conjunction with TZ2P all …

Radioisotopes can be produced artificially from stable nuclei through the interaction with
particles or highly energetic photons. In combination with modern detection and counting …

The discovery of X-ray in 1895 and the first X-ray image of Mrs. Röntgen's hand opened up a
new era of radiology and the research of medical imaging. The evolution of traditional …

This article explores the development of clinical uses for the artificial radioisotope between
1945 and 1965. As part of the broader nuclear enterprise, the radioisotope programme …

The feasibility of an additional ligand coordination at the 11th coordination site of actinium,
lanthanum, and lutetium ions in 10-fold coordinated macropa complexes has been studied …

Hal Oscar Anger (Fig. 1) was the inventor of the scintillation camera and one of the pioneers
in the field of instrumentation used in nuclear medicine [1–5]. He was born in Denver …

Abstract In chapter 13, Egleton from Sussex University contributes a work that examines the
various tools for evaluating the impact of Big Science laboratories/research infrastructures …