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- Summarizes the basic knowledge of modern physics in general and radiation physics in particular required for safe and efficient work in areas where ionizing radiation is used for diagnosis or therapy of disease
- Is recommended as an excellent textbook in book reviews
- Serves as the missing link between undergraduate classical as well as modern physics and the intricacies of the medical physics sub-specialties
- Same chapter and section layout as the "Compendium to Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists: 300 solved problems" (Springer 2014) and is cross-linked with this book in equation numbers, figure numbers, as well as table numbers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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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Reviews
“This book, now in its third edition, builds on his extensive expertise as a radiation physicist, medical physicist and educator, and constitutes a clear, comprehensive and well-balanced resource. … the book is aimed at medical physicists, and it is indeed an excellent and comprehensive resource for students on Master’s and research degrees in this area or on clinical scientist training programmes, as well as for practising medical physicists.” (Dr. Silvia Pani, RAD Magazine, October, 2017)
Authors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Medicine, Department of Oncology and Medical Physics Unit, McGill University, Montréal, 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists
Authors: Ervin B. Podgorsak
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25382-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25380-0Published: 06 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79781-6Published: 28 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25382-4Published: 03 November 2016
Series ISSN: 1868-4513
Series E-ISSN: 1868-4521
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: LVIII, 906
Number of Illustrations: 190 b/w illustrations, 67 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Originally published in the series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
Topics: Medical and Radiation Physics, Diagnostic Radiology, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Nuclear Medicine, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics