By Tony Key
Modern physics, radiation, atomic and nuclear physics have revolutionized clinical prognosis and the remedy of melanoma. The paintings of the scientists whose discoveries fuelled this revolution is a vital a part of our medical and cultural history. utilizing uncomplicated physics and easy arithmetic this publication exhibits how the discoveries of basic physics result in an figuring out of the real layout rules of analysis and radiation treatment. With its conscientiously selected and sensible routines and labored examples, it offers a short advent and vast beginning for college kids and practitioners within the existence sciences.
This ebook will be used as a textual content for an introductory direction in scientific physics or biophysics. in the event you are beginning their careers in scientific sciences or are already practitioners, it deals a few fascinating and worthwhile historical past and an aide-memoire of the fundamentals. For individuals of the general public it will probably offer a deeper figuring out of the technological know-how that informs the clinical tactics that too many could be topic to, at a deeper point than the customarily first-class yet, of necessity very uncomplicated and basically sensible info to be had from hospitals and websites. the previous viewers should be drawn to the mathematical demonstrations; the latter definitely aren't. in spite of the fact that, for either audiences, the main points of the calculations are less significant than the information that they are often done.
Contents:
- Introductory Atomic and Nuclear Physics
- X-rays — construction, features, and Use
- Radioactivity and Radioisotopes
- Radiation Therapy
- Radiation and the Environment
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Readership: scientific and lifestyles technology scholars, healthcare pros, biophysics scholars and normal public.
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