Fundamental Physics
1 FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS MIHIR NAIK AND ANDREW GODLEY 1.1 UNITS 1.2 ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR STRUCTURE 1.3 RADIOACTIVITY 1.4 EXPONENTIAL DECAY 1.1 UNITS Question 1 What are the units of radioactivity? Question 2 What is…
Absorbed Dose
4 ABSORBED DOSE MARTIN ANDREWS AND NAICHANG YU 4.1 DOSIMETRY 4.2 DOSIMETERS 4.1 DOSIMETRY Question 1 What is the definition of exposure? Question 2 Why is the concept of exposure not suitable…
Photon Treatment
5 PHOTON TREATMENT MATTHEW C. WARD AND SALIM BALIK 5.1 BEAM QUALITY 5.2 FACTORS AFFECTING PHOTON DOSE DEPOSITION 5.3 MONITOR UNIT CALCULATIONS 5.1 BEAM QUALITY Question 1 Explain the concept of “beam quality.” What…
Basic Treatment Planning
6 BASIC TREATMENT PLANNING JEFF KITTEL, LISA ZICKEFOOSE, AND DIANA MATTSON Question 1 Why is a 5° posteriorly titled gantry angle necessary in whole brain treatment? Question 2 What…
Diagnostic Imaging
13 DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING KEVIN WUNDERLE, NICHOLAS SHKUMAT, AND FRANK DONG 13.1 RADIOGRAPHY AND FLUOROSCOPY 13.2 MRI 13.3 MAMMOGRAPHY 13.4 NUCLEAR IMAGING 13.5 CT 13.6 ULTRASOUND 13.1 RADIOGRAPHY AND FLUOROSCOPY Question 1 Why is there a significant difference…
Radiation Generating Equipment
2 RADIATION GENERATING EQUIPMENT QINGYANG SHANG AND MATTHEW KOLAR 2.1 PRODUCTION OF X-RAYS 2.2 LINEAR ACCELERATORS 2.3 PARTICLE AND SOURCE-BASED RADIATION 2.1 PRODUCTION OF X-RAYS Question 1 What are the two different mechanisms by…
Ionizing Radiation
3 IONIZING RADIATION ZHILEI LIU SHEN AND TOUFIK DJEMIL 3.1 PHOTON INTERACTIONS 3.2 PARTICLE INTERACTIONS 3.1 PHOTON INTERACTIONS Question 1 What are the five major types of photon interactions with matter? Question…
Image Guidance
14 IMAGE GUIDANCE ERIC TISCHLER AND LAMA MUHIEDDINE MOSSOLLY Question 1 What is IGRT and why is it used? Question 2 What is the difference between accuracy and precision?…
Brachytherapy
8 BRACHYTHERAPY MARIA RYBAK, NEIL WOODY, AND ALLAN WILKINSON 8.1 BRACHYTHERAPY 8.2 LOW-DOSE-RATE BRACHYTHERAPY 8.3 HIGH-DOSE-RATE BRACHYTHERAPY 8.1 BRACHYTHERAPY Question 1 What is brachytherapy? Question 2 What are the types of brachytherapy? …
