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Dept     : BIO
Sem      : 5
Regul    : 2019
Faculty : Jagadhish V S
phone  : NIL
E-mail  : jagadhis.s.bme@snsct.org
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UNIT
1
RADIATION AND RADIOACTIVE DECAY

Radiation - non-ionizing radiation, ionizing radiation and its types. Electromagnetic spectrum – sources. Radioactive Decay - spontaneous fission, isomeric transition, alpha decay, beta decay, positron decay, and electron capture decay.

UNIT
2
INTERACTION OF RADIATION WITH MATTER

Interaction of charged particles with matter - Specific ionization, Linear energy transfer range, Bremsstrahlung, Annihilation, Interaction of X and Gamma radiation with matter- Photoelectric effect, Compton Scattering, Pair production, Attenuation of Gamma Radiation, Interaction of neutron with matter and their clinical significance.

UNIT
3
PRODUCTION OF RADIONUCLIDES

Common Radioisotopes – Units of Radioactivity - Radioactive Decay Law and Activity - Cyclotron - Produced Radionuclides, Radionuclide Generators - Technetium generator. Reactor-Produced Radionuclides – fission.

UNIT
4
PRINCIPLES OF RADIATION DETECTOR

Principles of Gas-Filled Detectors - Geiger–Müller Counters. Principles of Scintillation Detectors, Semiconductor Detectors and Liquid Scintillation Counters.

UNIT
5
BASIC RADIATION QUANTITIES

Units of Dosimetric Quantities. Radiation Weighting Factor, Equivalent Dose and Sievert. Tissue Weighting Factor and Effective Dose. Fundamental Radiation Protection Principles, Biological Effects of Radiation.

Reference Book:

1 Podgorsak E.B.-Radiation physics for medical physicists-Springer (2010). 2 B.H Brown, R.H Smallwood, D.C. Barber, P.V Lawford, D.R Hose-Medical physics and biomedical engineering-Institute of Physics Pub (1999).

Text Book:

1 Muhammed Maqbool - An Introduction to Medical Physics-Springer International Publishing (2017). 2 Gopal B. Saha, Physics and Radiobiology of Nuclear Medicine-Springer-Verlag New York (2013).