An introduction to radiation protection in medicine / edited by Jamie V. Trapp, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, Tomas Kron, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
1. Introduction / Tomas Kron -- 2. Fundamentals of radiation physics / Jamie V. Trapp and Peter Johnston -- 3. Radiation and risk : radiobiological background / Tomas Kron -- 4. Radiation detection and simulation methods / Jamie V. Trapp and Peter Johnston -- 5. Managing radiation in the workplace / Peter Johnston, Jamie V. Trapp, and Tomas Kron -- 6. Radiation protection in diagnostic and interventional radiology / John Heggie -- 7. Radiation protection in nuclear medicine / Raymond Budd -- 8. Radiation protection in external beam radiotherapy / Jim Cramb -- 9. Radiation protection in brachytherapy / Ram Das -- 10. Outlook and conclusion / Tomas Kron
Summary
Combining facets of health physics with medicine, An Introduction to Radiation Protection in Medicine covers the background of the subject and the medical situations where radiation is the tool to diagnose or treat human disease. Encouraging newcomers to the field to properly and efficiently function in a versatile and evolving work setting, it familiarizes them with the particular problems faced during the application of ionizing radiation in medicine. The text builds a fundamental knowledge base before providing practical descriptions of radiation safety in medicine. It covers basic issues
