Radiation physics
The field of radiation physics deals with the properties and the interaction of ionizing radiation with matter. Depending on the context, different areas of physics are in the foreground.
The biological effects of ionizing radiation are examined in the context of radiology , nuclear medicine , medical physics and radiation biology . Ionizing radiation is not always harmful to health ( radiation exposure ), but is also used specifically in radiation therapy to cure diseases or to delay their progression. In addition, imaging processes are a branch of radiation physics.
Web links
Wiktionary: Radiation Physics - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Association of Radiation and Medical Physics in the German Physical Society
- Institute for Radiation Physics
Individual evidence
- ↑ Winfried Koelzer: Lexicon on nuclear energy . KIT Scientific Publishing, 2013, ISBN 3-7315-0059-0 , p. 208 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Hanno Krieger, Wolfgang Petzold: Radiation Physics, Dosimetry and Radiation Protection. Volume 1: Basics. BG Teubner, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-519-23052-6 .
- ↑ a b J. Bille, W. Schlegel: Medical Physics: Volume 2 Medical Radiation Physics. Springer, 2002, ISBN 3-540-65254-X .