Description:
While
radiation dosimetry is no longer the “hot topic” of research that it
once was, new treatment modalities still have challenges to be solved
and detector systems are constantly being developed. But as a
relatively mature subject, there is no widely used current book devoted
to clinical dosimetry. A primary purpose of producing this Summer
School was to create such a text to help in the education of clinical
physicists who had not had access to the forefront research into
understanding radiation dosimetry. Making sure the dose delivered to
the patient is what it should be is one of the most important jobs
medical physicists have. There are many aspects to doing this, but at
the core, the radiation must be accurately measured. One of the
original major tasks of the AAPM was to establish methods which its
members could use to reliably carry out this task, and it has been
highly successful. There have been clinical dosimetry protocols and
formalisms for brachytherapy dosimetry developed, calibration
laboratories accredited, and a myriad of task group reports produced on
different dosimetry techniques and delivery modalities. Hardcover book includes CD version.
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