Fundamental Physics for Probing and Imaging

Professor Wade AllisonPhysics Department and Keble CollegeUniversity of Oxford OxfordOX1 3PG Wade Allison is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow of Keble College. His own field is Particle Physics to which he has made significant contributions to experiments on Quarks and Neutrinos and to the theory and application of the energy loss of relativistic charged particles in matter to the design and construction of particle detectors. He has lectured extensively on Electromagnetism and on Nuclear Structure Physics. A few years ago with Louis Lyons he initiated a course entitled ``Applications of Nuclear Physics'' from which grew the particular course that he currently lectures concerned with Medical and Environmental Physics. A growing interest in this course and an absence of suitable texts encouraged him to write this book.

• 1. Physics for security ; 2. Magnetism and magnetic resonance ; 3. Interactions of ionising radiation ; 4. Mechanical waves and properties of matter ; 5. Information and data analysis ; 6. Analysis and damage by irradiation ; 7. Imaging with magnetic resonance ; 8. Medical imaging and therapy with ionising radiation ; 9. Ultrasound for imaging and therapy ; 10. Forward look and conclusions ; Appendices: Conventions, nomenclature and units. Glossary of terms and abbreviations. Hints and answers to selected questions.

All of us (whether students or professionals, academics or clinicians) need to engage with the fudamentals of our subject and medical physicists can do so with this book. For most of us, the going will be tough but the effort worthwhile. Scope, December 2007.