This subject contains a 3 day Optional Residential School.
In this subject physical concepts and laws are introduced relating to radiation generation and interaction, along with mathematical and computational methods used in describing the behaviour of radiation.
Broad areas of study include: Concepts of modern physics, elementary nuclear physics, radiation generation and interaction, radiation metrology, introduction to dosimetry, applicable mathematical methods, and radiation counting statistics. Elementary computational work in radiation physics using readily available spreadsheet software is also undertaken.
No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2019.
HD/FL
One session
School of Biomedical Sciences
Available to students in B App Sc (Medical Imaging) Conversion or to any student having obtained special approval from the subject co-ordinator.
PHY210 PHY209 includes methods and principles necessary for successful and efficient study of PHY210
Mathematical & Computational Methods. Brief review of high school level mathematics pertinent to radiation physics. Elementary aspects of series and numerical methods. Use of software (esp. spreadsheets and Excel) in computation. Concepts of Modern Physics. Energy-Mass equivalence, wave-particle natures, basic atomic structure, nuclear decay laws and modes, elementary aspects of particle physics. Radiation Generation Definition of radiation. Characteristic and continuous X ray spectra, and gamma spectra. Thick and thin target X ray generation. Point versus plane sources. Radiation -Matter Interaction. Charged and uncharged particle interactions. Photoelectric, Compton and Pair production events. Bethe-Bloch model. Chance and the exponential attenuation law, parameters of photon survival. Attenuation and absorption coefficients. Radiation Metrology. Definition of radiation measurement quantities: particle and energy fluence, particle flux and intensity. Exposure and kerma. Mean and 'point' quantities. Introduction to Radiation Dosimetry Absorbed dose D. Electronic equilibrium. Relationships between beam quantities and D, the f factor. Radiation Detection. Principles of radiation detection. Radiation detector types. Radiation Counting Statistics. Poisson statistics, probability distributions, basic z, t and chi squared tests for radiation counts.
This subject contains a 3 day Optional Residential School.
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