Reference Material
Medical Physics references
- Glossary of Nuclear Science Terms - including descriptions of radioactive decay and interactions of radiation with matter) - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Introduction to Radiographic Testing/Principles - includes educational description of physics and techniques related to radiologic imaging
- Radquiz.com - thorough online collection of medical physics related educational links, organized by topic
- Radiation and Radioactivity Information - Idaho State University
Links to online Animations and Applets
- The Law of Radioactive Decay - applet 1, applet 2, applet 3
- Bohr's Theory of the Hydrogen Atom - applet 1
- The Photoelectric Effect - applet 1, applet 2, applet 3
- Compton Scattering Angle - applet 1, applet 2, applet 3 (with detector)
- Positron Annihilation - animation 1, animation 2
- Radsim (An educational program to simulate particle interactions in matter) - free software download
- Absorption and Emission of Radiation by an Atom - applet 1
- Sources of Attenuation - summary of attenuation mechanisms, absorption and transmission - applet 1
- Geometric Unsharpness - applet 1
- Refraction and Snell's law - applet 1
- Transducer Beam Spread - applet 1
- Inverse Square Law - applet 1
- Cyclotron - applet 1
- RADAR Medical Procedure Radiation Dose Calculator - link
- Radioactivity unit conversions - link 1, link 2
- Live Chart of Nuclides (IAEA) - applet 1