Medical Radiation Physics.

Abstract

According to the preface, this is intended as a textbook for a variety of readers, including resident physicians and beginning graduate students in medical physics. The number of chapters devoted to the different topics covered will give some indication of the relative importance the author assigns to each subject. The first three chapters are concerned with the structure of matter, radioactive decay, and interactions of particulate radiations, while the next four deal with the production of x rays, x-ray circuits and generators, and the fundamental interactions of x and gamma rays with matter. Dosimetry, radiation quality, interaction of radiations with body tissues, radiation fields, and other aspects of the physics of radiotherapy are discussed in Chapters 8-16. The following four chapters cover the physics of nuclear medicine, including radiation detectors, data analysis and handling, gamma-ray spectrometry, measurement of internal radioactivity, and clinical use of radioactive nuclides. Chapters 21 through 24 deal with the physics of diagnostic radiology, including intensifying screens, conventional and television fluoroscopy, cinefluorography, stereoscopic and subtraction radiography, microradiography, computers in diagnostic radiol-