… body, have been used in medical physics and health physics since the beginning. Soon after
… , medical exposure-are we doing less with more, and is there a role for health physicists? …

… book describes the physical and computational phantoms used by medical physicists in
radiotherapy, imaging, and radiation protection. It is also a good reference volume for physicists. …

… Phantoms, devices that represent the human body, have been used in medical physics and
health physics … Soon after the discovery of X-rays, news of the medical benefits of radiation …

… reduce radiation doses, and medical health physicists play a vital role in these endeavors. …
on medical health physics issues in radiology, diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine, …

… term “phantom” in the medical literature. Often, it is used without much explanation. The book
The Phantoms of Medical and Health Physics states in the introduction “Phantoms, devices …

… Medical Physics students’ theoretical training is currently not enough to allow graduates to
… used in medical imaging, radiotherapy or nuclear medicine. Certainly, Physics Faculties from …

… Furthermore, we include a 3D surface analysis and describe several medical physics
applications in which our phantoms have been used: x-ray dosimetry, scattered radiation …

… a radiation physics course in academic medical physics graduate programs … medical physics
subspecialties. The book may also be of interest to many professionals, not only physicists, …

… a subject of great interest to the fields of radiation protection, medical imaging, and radiotherapy.
Health physicists often need to understand how radiation interacts with the human body …

… heterogeneous anthropomorphic quality assurance phantoms for use in verifying … phantoms
and to demonstrate the reproducibility of measurements generated with them. The phantoms …