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Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Ervin B. Podgoršak

    1. Department of Medical Physics, Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Canada

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  • The missing link between the elementary physics on the one hand and the physics of the subspecialities on the other hand

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

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXI
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  2. Introduction to Modern Physics

    Pages XXII-41

  3. Rutherford—Bohr Atomic Model

    Pages 42-85

  4. Production of X Rays

    Pages 86-115

  5. Two—Particle Collisions

    Pages 116-139

  6. Interactions of Charged Particles with Matter

    Pages 140-167

  7. Interactions of Neutrons with Matter

    Pages 168-185

  8. Interactions of Photons with Matter

    Pages 186-261

  9. Radioactivity

    Pages 262-358

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 359-437
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About this book

This book is intended as a textbook for a course in radiation physics in a- demic medical physics graduate programs. The book may also be of interest to the large number of professionals, not only physicists, who in their daily occupations deal with various aspects of medical physics and have a need to improve their understanding of radiation physics. Medical physics is a rapidly growing specialty of physics, concerned with the application of physics to medicine mainly, but not exclusively, in the - plication of ionizing radiation to diagnosis and treatment of human disease. In contrast to other physics specialties, such as nuclear physics, solid-state physics, and high-energy physics, studies of modern medical physics attract a much broader base of professionals including graduate students in me- cal physics, medical residents and technology students in radiation oncology and diagnostic imaging, students in biomedical engineering, and students in radiationsafetyandradiationdosimetryeducationalprograms.Theseprof- sionals have diverse background knowledge of physics and mathematics, but they all have a common desire to improve their knowledge of the physics that underlies the application of ionizing radiation in diagnosis and treatment of disease.

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"This is a textbook by a distinguished physicist and educator that is intended for students in a graduate-level course covering the fundamentals of medical physics. The author states that the book’s intent is to provide the "missing link" between elementary physics and the physics of the specialty of medical physics. The book meets this intent very well….

"Any instructor teaching an introductory graduate-level course on the principles of medical physics should consider this book for adoption as a text. The book does not cover applications of the principles to topics such as dosimetry, quality and safety, or applications to radiology, nuclear medicine, or radiation oncology. What it does cover is the principles themselves, and it covers them very well." (Medical Physics, January 2006)

"Although intended as a textbook for radiation physics course incorporated in graduate medical physics degree programs, this book will be a delight and ready-reference also to seasoned practitioners. Besides the inclusion of a listing and elaborations of the significant milestones in radiation and medical physics from 1985 and Röntgen’s X rays up through Hounsfield and Cormack’s Computerized Tomography (CT) in 1971 and beyond, the book is packed with all the concepts, formulas and physical constants any radiation physics doctoral student would love to have wired into his or her brain, to sail through the most formidable examination with flying colors… This textbook, based on notes the author ‘developed over the past 25 years of teaching radiation physics to MSc and PhD students in medical physics at McGill University’ is a real gem for the bookshelf of anyone already professional working in the radiation sciences, as well as for a comprehensive teaching text aptly suitable for a graduate-level course within the medical radiation physics curriculum.’ (John H. Hubbell, Radiation Physics and Chemistry)

"...for the theory of radiation physics at afundamental level, Podgorsak's book provides a wonderful resource presented in a well organized and easy to learn manner, in a way not found in any other text... [he] is to be congratulated for adding to the basic radiation physics learning tools for medical physics graduate students and researchers." (Jake van Dyk, London Regional Cancer Program, Can. Med Phys Newsletter (July 2006)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Medical Physics, Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Canada

    Ervin B. Podgoršak

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 at the University of Ljubljana in 1968. He then studied at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, USA and obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics. He completed his post-doctoral studies in medical physics at the University of Toronto in 1974 and moved to McGill University in Montreal, where he currently holds positions of Professor of Medical Physics and Director of the Medical Physics department.

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