Description
Proton Therapy Physics
📘 2nd Edition · 2019
Build a detailed understanding of the physics behind proton therapy with a reference covering beam delivery, measurement, treatment planning, and operational processes. The second edition organizes these subjects into a connected framework for specialist learning.
📚 Inside this eBook
- Proton interactions and the foundations of proton therapy
- Beam production and delivery systems
- Radiation protection, shielding, and Monte Carlo simulation
- Detectors, relative dosimetry, and reference dosimetry
- Acceptance testing, commissioning, quality assurance, and monitor unit calibration
- Dose calculation, scanned-beam planning, and treatment uncertainty
🔎 Why add it to your reading list?
Readers can follow the book from physical foundations into clinical implementation or use individual chapters to review a specific technical topic. The emphasis on dosimetry, uncertainty, and quality assurance makes it useful for structured study within a proton therapy setting.
👩⚕️ Who is it for?
Medical physicists, radiation oncology professionals, physics trainees, and researchers studying particle therapy.
📖 Book details
- Authors / editors: Harald Paganetti, editor
- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Publication year: 2019
- Publisher: CRC Press
- ISBN: 9781138626508
- Format: English-language PDF eBook



