Tutorials in Radiotherapy Physics: Advanced Topics with Problems and Solutions

ISBN-13: 9781138445680 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Patrick N. McDermott

Opis

The Topics Every Medical Physicist Should Know
Tutorials in Radiotherapy Physics: Advanced Topics with Problems and Solutions covers selected advanced topics that are not thoroughly discussed in any of the standard medical physics texts

Recenzje

"The application of radiation physics to medicine is an expanding multidisciplinary field based on knowledge, tools and techniques derived from nuclear and particle physics. This book will therefore appeal not only to curious medical physicists and scientists active in the fi eld, but also to physicists in general who – as the author comments – ‘like understanding’."
—CERN Courier (Jan/Feb 2017)

Spis treści

The Physics of Electron Acceleration in Medical Linacs. Proton Therapy Physics: Protons for Pedestrians. Convolution/Superposition Dose Computation Algorithms. Deterministic Radiation Transport: A Rival to Monte Carlo Methods. Tumor Control and Normal Tissue Complication Probability Models in Radiation Therapy.

O autorze

Patrick N. McDermott, PhD, is the director of physics education at Beaumont Health and an adjunct associate professor at Oakland University. He was previously an associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Wayne State University and a physicist at the Karmanos Cancer Institute. He is a fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and a recipient of numerous teaching awards. He earned a PhD in physics and astronomy from the University of Rochester and an MS in radiological physics from Wayne State University. He is board certified in radiation oncology physics by the American Board of Medical Physics.