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Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists (Hardcover, 3rd ed. 2016)
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Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists (Hardcover, 3rd ed. 2016)
Series: Graduate Texts in Physics
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This textbook summarizes the basic knowledge of atomic, nuclear,
and radiation physics that professionals working in medical physics
and biomedical engineering need for efficient and safe use of
ionizing radiation in medicine. Concentrating on the underlying
principles of radiation physics, the textbook covers the
prerequisite knowledge for medical physics courses on the graduate
and post-graduate levels in radiotherapy physics, radiation
dosimetry, imaging physics, and health physics, thus providing the
link between elementary undergraduate physics and the intricacies
of four medical physics specialties: diagnostic radiology physics,
nuclear medicine physics, radiation oncology physics, and health
physics. To recognize the importance of radiation dosimetry to
medical physics three new chapters have been added to the 14
chapters of the previous edition. Chapter 15 provides a general
introduction to radiation dosimetry. Chapter 16 deals with absolute
radiation dosimetry systems that establish absorbed dose or some
other dose related quantity directly from the signal measured by
the dosimeter. Three absolute dosimetry techniques are known and
described in detail: (i) calorimetric; (ii) chemical (Fricke), and
(iii) ionometric. Chapter 17 deals with relative radiation
dosimetry systems that rely on a previous dosimeter calibration in
a known radiation field. Many relative radiation dosimetry systems
have been developed to date and four most important categories used
routinely in medicine and radiation protection are described in
this chapter: (i) Ionometric dosimetry; (ii) Luminescence
dosimetry; (iii) Semiconductor dosimetry; and (iv) Film dosimetry.
The book is intended as a textbook for a radiation physics course
in academic medical physics graduate programs as well as a
reference book for candidates preparing for certification
examinations in medical physics sub-specialties. It may also be of
interest to many professionals, not only physicists, who in their
daily occupations deal with various aspects of medical physics or
radiation physics and have a need or desire to improve their
understanding of radiation physics.
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