This book provides easy-to-follow and comprehensive coverage of all the essential principles of physics that undergraduate diagnostic radiography students need to know in order to operate diagnostic equipment more easily, effectively and safely. It also covers the basic physics that therapeutic radiographers require in order to provide optimal treatment to their patients.
1. Principles of radiography 2. Geometric radiography 3. The inverse square law 4. The exponential law
Part 2 General physics
5. Laws of physics (classical) 6. Units of measurement 7. Experimental error and statistics 8. Heat 9. Electrostatics 10. Electricity (DC) 11. Magnetism 12. Electromagnetism 13. Electromagnetic induction 14. Alternating current flow 15. The motor principle 16. Capacitors 17. The AC transformer 18. Semiconductor materials 19. Rectification 20. Exposure and timing circuits
Part 3 Construction and operation of x-ray tubes
21. Diagnostic x-ray tubes 22. Monitoring and protection of X-ray tubes 23. Orthovoltage generators and linear accelerators
Part 4 Atomic physics
24. Laws of modern physics 25. Electromagnetic radiation 26. Elementary structure of the atom 27. Radioactivity
Part 5 X-rays and matter
28. The production of x-rays 29. Factors affecting x-ray beam quality and quantity 30. Interaction of x-rays with matter 31. Luminescence and photostimulation 32. The radiographic image
Part 6. Dosimetry and radiation protection
33. Radiation dosimetry 34. Radiation protection
Appendices, tables and answers to self-tests
Appendix A Mathematics for radiography
Appendix B Scintillation counters
Appendic C CT scanning
Appendix D Magnetic resonance imaging
Appendix E Digital imaging
Appendix F Ultrasound imaging
Appendix G Positron emission tomography (PET)
Appendix H Modulation transfer function (MTF)
Appendix I SI base units
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