An Incomplete Medical Physics Review

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The following serves as a list of potentially useful sources of information, and as a bibliography for this website.

FYI: This list is in no way comprehensive, as there are many excellent books, articles and websites for medical physics. It is simply meant to be a starting point.

General Radiation Physics

Introduction to Radiological Physics and Radiation Dosimetry, Frank H Attix, John Wiley & Sons, 1986 

Therapy physics

The Physics of Radiation Therapy, Fifth Edition, Faiz M. Khan, LWW 2014

The Physics of Radiotherapy X-Rays And Electrons, Peter Metcalfe, Medical Physics Pub Corp, 2007

Treatment planning

Khan's Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology, Faiz M. Khan, LWW, 2016

Imaging

The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging, 3rd Third Edition, Jerrold Bushberg et al, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2012

Nuclear Medicine

Physics in Nuclear Medicine, Fourth Edition, Cherry, Sorenson & Phelps, Saunders, 2012.
This the nuclear medicine "bible"

MRI

MRI from Picture to Proton, 2nd Edition, Donald W. McRobbie, Cambridge University Press, 2007
Starts with images as sequences rather than underlying physics theory.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Physical Principles and Sequence Design, 2nd Edition, E. Mark Haacke, Wiley-Blackwell 2014
Questions and answers in MRI (website)

CT

Computed Tomography: Principles, Design, Artifacts, and Recent Advances, Third Edition, Jiang Hsieh, SPIE Press, 2015

Radiobiology

Radiobiology for the Radiologist, Seventh Edition, Eric J. Hall, LWW 2011.

Anatomy and Physiology

Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 7th edition, Keith L. Moore, LWW 2013
This is a large (overly) comprehensive book, but is useful as a reference with great illustrations.

LWW = Lippincottt Williams & Wilkins

Radioactive decay calculators

ACR PET phantom fill form


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