The Phantoms of Medical and Health Physics

This book examines all types of phantoms used in medical imaging, therapy, nuclear medicine and health physics. It contains an overview of commercially available phantoms and covers the needs and requirements for phantoms of the future.

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.

Comprehensive coverage of the history of medical physics phantoms Applies medical physics phantoms toward research and development Contains an overview of commercially available phantoms and describes current medical physics phantom design Covers the needs and requirements for phantoms of the future

Klappentext
A comprehensive overview of all types of phantoms used in medical imaging, therapy, nuclear medicine and health physics is provided in this title. 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.

Though some of the information enclosed is found in other sources, divided especially along the three categories of imaging, therapy, and health physics, many medical physicists as well as professionals need to bridge these three catagories. 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.

Inhalt

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.