Radiation Physics Education

Formal course run July through August

Syllabus: Summer 2022: Medical Physics for Physician Residents

Date	Subject	Instructor	Reading	Homework
7/8	Review of Basic Physics	Davies	(1)(2.1-2.7)	Homework 1
7/11	Atomic Nuclei/Radioactivity	Davies	(1)(3.1-3.11)
7/12	Nuclear Physics	Davies	(1)(3.11-3.15)
7/15	X-Ray Production-Technology	Davies	(1)(4.1-4.6)	Homework 2
7/18	X-Ray Production Physics	Davies	(1)(5.1-5.7)
7/19	Interaction of Electromagnetic Radiation with Matter	Davies	(1)(6.1)
7/22	Interaction of Charged Particles with Matter	Crosby	(1)(6.2-6.4)	Homework 3
7/25	Radiation Quantities: Dose	Crosby	(1)7.1-7.6
7/26	Radiation Quantities: Exposure to MonteCarlo	Bodart	(1)7.7-7.11
7/29	Detectors	Davies	(1)8.1-8.6	Homework 4
8/1	Linear Accelerators	Tyson	(1)9.1-9.12
8/2	Central Axis Dose Distributions, Calibration of Photon Beams	Carroll	(1)10.1-10.9, 11 – Chapter summary only
8/5	No Class
8/8	MU Calculation on Open & Shaped Fields	Carroll	(1)12.5 – 12.6
8/9	Imaging 1	Lawless
8/12	Imaging 2	Lawless
8/15	No Class
8/16	3D-CRT	Davies	(1)13.1-13.13
8/19	IMRT	Davies	(1)15.1-15.6
8/22	DVH/Adaptation	Davies	(1)14.1-14.3	Homework 5
8/23	Electrons/TSET/TBI	Tyson	(1)16.1-16.8
8/26	Protons	Hill	((1)15.1-15.6
8/29	SRS/SBRT	Arnold	(1)20.1-20.4
8/30	Brachy I	Slagowski	(1)17.1-17.9	Homework 6
9/2	Brachy II	Slagowski	(1)17.10-17.17
9/5	No Class – Labor Day
9/6	QA/Safety	Jacqmin	(1)21.1-21.11
9/9	Rad Safety/Shielding	Carroll	(1)18.1-18.9