Brian J. McParland

2014

Theory of Charged Particle Collision
Energy Loss

Medical radiation dosimetry is the discipline of evaluating, through measurement or calculation, the absorbed dose received by a patient as a consequence of therapeutic or diagnostic exposures to ionising radiation. A high level of accuracy in the calculation and measurement of this dosimetry is essential for the optimisation of patient treatment and diagnostic efficacy, the assurance of patient safety and the continued use of medical exposures in retrospective epidemiological studies of the effects of ionising radiation. The achievement of this accuracy requires detailed theoretical knowledge of the means through which the radiation interacts with matter.