Overview
- The missing link between the elementary physics on the one hand and the physics of the subspecialities on the other hand
- Combines radiation physics and medical physics
- 2nd edition enlarged in contents, e. g. accelerators and wave guide theory, updated, and reorganized
- Excellent study text for graduate students and reference work for practitioners
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering (BIOMEDICAL)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Reviews
From the reviews of the second edition:
“It covers the prerequisite knowledge needed for courses specific to the subdisciplines of medical physics–radiotherapy physics, radiation dosimetry, imaging physics, and health physics. … Every medical physicist should master the principles in the book so that their applications in specific fields of medical physics can be understood and appreciated. … Book is recommended as the text for a course designed for entering graduate students in medical physics, and every medical physicist should understand and be able to utilize the information in the text.” (William Hendee, Medical Physics, Vol. 37 (9), September, 2010)
Authors and Affiliations
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists
Authors: Ervin B. Podgorsak
Series Title: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00875-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-00875-7Published: 02 February 2010
Series ISSN: 1618-7210
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5647
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 745
Topics: Medical and Radiation Physics, Imaging / Radiology, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Diagnostic Radiology, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Nuclear Medicine