Reference Material
Medical Physics references
- Glossary of Nuclear Science Terms - including descriptions of radioactive decay and interactions of radiation with matter) - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Introduction to Radiographic Testing/Principles - includes educational description of physics and techniques related to radiologic imaging
- Radquiz.com - thorough online collection of medical physics related educational links, organized by topic
- Radiation and Radioactivity Information - Idaho State University
- Van Dyk, The Modern Technology of Radiation Oncology, Chapter 16 - collation of radiation oncology medical physics resources
- http://www.emerald2.eu/mep_15.html - The e-book Pioneering of e-Learning in Medical Physics (The development of e-Books, Image Databases, Dictionary and Encyclopaedia) by S. Tabakov, V.Tabakova, 2015, ISBN 978-0-9552108-4-6 describes a chronology of 7 international projects (1994-2014) which are among the first to develop and introduce original e-learning in the teaching process
Links to online Animations and Applets
- SIMAC: open-source medical linac simulation tool that allows users to simulate the physics of beam formation in a medical linac
- The Law of Radioactive Decay - applet 1, applet 2, applet 3
- Bohr's Theory of the Hydrogen Atom - applet 1
- The Photoelectric Effect - applet 1, applet 2
- Compton Scattering Angle - applet 1
- Positron Annihilation - animation 1, animation 2
- Radsim (An educational program to simulate particle interactions in matter) - free software download
- Absorption and Emission of Radiation by an Atom - applet 1
- Sources of Attenuation - summary of attenuation mechanisms, absorption and transmission - applet 1
- Geometric Unsharpness - applet 1
- Refraction and Snell's law - applet 1
- Transducer Beam Spread - applet 1
- Inverse Square Law - applet 1
- RADAR Medical Procedure Radiation Dose Calculator - link
- Radioactivity unit conversions - link 1, link 2
- Live Chart of Nuclides (IAEA) - applet 1