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The Phantoms of Medical and Health Physics

Devices for Research and Development

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Larry A. DeWerd

    1. University of Wisconsin–Madison Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Researc, Madison, USA

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  2. Michael Kissick

    1. University of Wisconsin–Madison Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Researc, Madison, USA

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  • Comprehensive coverage of the history of medical physics phantoms
  • Applies medical physics phantoms toward research and development
  • Contains an overview of commercially available phantoms and describes current medical physics phantom design
  • Covers the needs and requirements for phantoms of the future

Part of the book series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering (BIOMEDICAL)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction to Phantoms of Medical and Health Physics

    • Larry A. DeWerd, Michael Lawless
    Pages 1-14

  3. Phantoms of Radiation Therapy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Radiation Therapy Dosimetry Phantoms

      • Sean P. Frigo
      Pages 17-38

    3. Anthropomorphic Phantoms for Radiation Oncology Medical Physics

      • David S. Followill
      Pages 39-51

    4. Motion Phantoms for Radiotherapy

      • Michael Kissick, Travis McCaw
      Pages 53-75

    5. Phantoms in Brachytherapy

      • Yun Yang, Mark J. Rivard
      Pages 77-87

  4. Imaging Phantoms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Imaging Phantoms: Conventional X-ray Imaging Applications

      • Kwan-Hoong Ng, Chai-Hong Yeong
      Pages 91-122

    3. Computer Tomography Phantom Applications

      • Paulo R. Costa
      Pages 123-142

    4. Mammography Phantoms

      • Alessandra Tomal
      Pages 143-157

    5. Phantoms for Ultrasound Experimentation and Quality Control

      • Evan J. Boote
      Pages 159-179

    6. Phantoms for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

      • Reed Selwyn
      Pages 181-199

    7. Nuclear Medicine and PET Phantoms

      • Mark T. Madsen, John J. Sunderland
      Pages 201-222

  5. Computational Phantoms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
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    2. Computational Phantoms for Organ Dose Calculations in Radiation Protection and Imaging

      • X. George Xu
      Pages 225-262

    3. Applications of Computational Phantoms

      • Bryan Bednarz
      Pages 263-284

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 285-286
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Researc, Madison, USA

    Larry A. DeWerd, Michael Kissick

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