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Compendium to Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists

300 Problems and Solutions

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Ervin B. Podgorsak

    1. Department of Oncology, McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Canada

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  • Can be used in combination with other textbooks
  • Exercise book for graduate and undergraduate students of medical physics and engineering
  • Well chosen and didactically presented problems
  • Perfect set for learning in connection with the textbook by Podgorsak and others
  • Detailed derivation of results with many detailed illustrations
  • Fully worked-out solutions to exercises/questions
  • Combines exercises in radiation physics and medical physics
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Introduction to Modern Physics

    • Ervin B. Podgoršak
    Pages 1-115

  3. Coulomb Scattering

    • Ervin B. Podgoršak
    Pages 117-176

  4. Rutherford–Bohr Atomic Model

    • Ervin B. Podgoršak
    Pages 177-223

  5. Production of X Rays

    • Ervin B. Podgoršak
    Pages 225-265

  6. Two-Particle Collisions

    • Ervin B. Podgoršak
    Pages 267-297

  7. Interaction of Charged Particles with Matter

    • Ervin B. Podgoršak
    Pages 299-386

  8. Interaction of Photons with Matter

    • Ervin B. Podgoršak
    Pages 387-514

  9. Energy Transfer and Energy Absorption in Photon Interaction with Matter

    • Ervin B. Podgoršak
    Pages 515-580

  10. Interaction of Neutrons with Matter

    • Ervin B. Podgoršak
    Pages 581-635

  11. Kinetics of Radioactive Decay

    • Ervin B. Podgoršak
    Pages 637-692

  12. Modes of Radioactive Decay

    • Ervin B. Podgoršak
    Pages 693-786

  13. Production of Radionuclides

    • Ervin B. Podgoršak
    Pages 787-939

  14. Waveguide Theory

    • Ervin B. Podgoršak
    Pages 941-1039

  15. Particle Accelerators in Medicine

    • Ervin B. Podgoršak
    Pages 1041-1099

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 1101-1148
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About this book

This exercise book contains 300 typical problems and exercises in modern physics and radiation physics with complete solutions, detailed equations and graphs. This textbook is linked directly with the textbook "Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists", Springer (2010) but can also be used in combination with other related textbooks. For ease of use, this textbook has exactly the same organizational layout (14 chapters, 128 sections) as the "Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists" textbook and each section is covered by at least one problem with solution given. Equations, figures and tables are cross-referenced between the two books. It is the only large compilation of textbook material and associated solved problems in medical physics, radiation physics, and biophysics.

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“This book is intended for courses in academic medical physics and biomedical engineering graduate programs as well as a reference for candidates preparing for certification examination in medical physics specialties. Graduate students in other fields of science who want to gain a deeper understanding of modern physics and its relationship with radiation physics in medicine also will find this book valuable.” (Olivier Gayou, Doody’s Book Reviews, September, 2014)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Oncology, McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Canada

    Ervin B. Podgorsak

About the author

Ervin B. Podgorsak was born in Vienna, Austria and grew up in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he completed his undergraduate studies in technical physics in 1968. He then continued his studies in the USA at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and obtained M.SC. and Ph.D. degrees in physics. He accomplished his post-doctoral studies in medical physics at the University of Toronto in 1974 and moved to McGill University in Montréal where he currently holds positions of Professor of Medical Physics and Director of the Medical Physics department. He is author of various successful books.

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