The Phantoms of Medical and Health Physics

Devices for Research and Development

Larry A. DeWerd, Michael Kissick (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

286 Seiten

2016 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4939-4360-9 (ISBN)

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The purpose and subject of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of all types of phantoms used in medical imaging, therapy, nuclear medicine and health physics. For ionizing radiation, dosimetry with respect to issues of material composition, shape, and motion/position effects are all highlighted. For medical imaging, each type of technology will need specific materials and designs, and the physics and indications will be explored for each type. Health physics phantoms are concerned with some of the same issues such as material heterogeneity, but also unique issues such as organ-specific radiation dose from sources distributed in other organs.

Readers will be able to use this book to select the appropriate phantom from a vendor at a clinic, to learn from as a student, to choose materials for custom phantom design, to design dynamic features, and as a reference for a variety of applications. Some of the information enclosed is found in other sources, divided especially along the three categories of imaging, therapy, and health physics. To our knowledge, even though professionally, many medical physicists need to bridge the three catagories described above.

1. Introduction to Phantoms of Medical and Health Physics.- Section I: Phantoms of Radiation Therapy.- 2. Radiation Therapy Dosimetry Phantoms.- 3. Anthropormorphic Phantoms for Radiation Oncology Medical Physics.- 4. Motion Phantoms for Therapy.- 5. Phantoms in Brachytherapy.- Section II. Imaging Phantoms.- 6. Imaging Phantoms: Conventional X-ray Imaging Applications.- 7. Computer Tomography (CT) Phantom Applications.- 8. Mammography Phantoms.- 9. Phantoms for Ultrasound Experimentation and Quality Control.- 10. Phantoms for Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- 11. Nuclear Medicine phantoms.- Section III. Computational Phantoms.- 12. Computational Phantoms for Organ Dose Calculations in Radiation Protection and Imaging.- 13. Applications of Computational Phantoms.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2017
Reihe/Serie	Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
Zusatzinfo	62 Illustrations, color; 52 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 286 p. 114 illus., 62 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Radiologie / Bildgebende Verfahren ► Nuklearmedizin
	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Radiologie / Bildgebende Verfahren ► Radiologie
	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Radiologie / Bildgebende Verfahren ► Sonographie / Echokardiographie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Orthopädie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
	Technik ► Medizintechnik
Schlagworte	anthropormophic phantoms • brachytherapy phantoms • medical imaging phantoms reviewed • medical physics phantoms • nuclear medicine phantoms • phantoms for dosimetry • phantoms for medical imaging • radiation calibration and dosimetry • water and epoxy based phantoms
ISBN-10	1-4939-4360-X / 149394360X
ISBN-13	978-1-4939-4360-9 / 9781493943609
Zustand	Neuware