The Phantoms of Medical and Health Physics - Devices for Research and Development (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)

The purpose and subject of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of all types of phantoms used in medical imaging, therapy, nuclear medicine and health physics. For ionizing radiation, dosimetry with respect to issues of material composition, shape, and motion/position effects are all highlighted. For medical imaging, each type of technology will need specific materials and designs, and the physics and indications will be explored for each type. Health physics phantoms are concerned with some of the same issues such as material heterogeneity, but also unique issues such as organ-specific radiation dose from sources distributed in other organs. Readers will be able to use this book to select the appropriate phantom from a vendor at a clinic, to learn from as a student, to choose materials for custom phantom design, to design dynamic features, and as a reference for a variety of applications. Some of the information enclosed is found in other sources, divided especially along the three categories of imaging, therapy, and health physics. To our knowledge, even though professionally, many medical physicists need to bridge the three catagories described above.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	2014
Editors:	Larry A. DeWerd • Michael Kissick
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	286
Edition:	2014 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4614-8303-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Nuclear medicine Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical equipment & techniques > Medical research Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Medical imaging > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Medical physics
LSN:	1-4614-8303-4
Barcode:	9781461483038

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