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Title: Radiobiology for the Radiologist by Eric J., D. Phil., D.Sc., F.A.C.R., F.R.C.R. Hall ISBN: 0-7817-2649-2 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers Pub. Date: 15 September, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $99.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: good but not perfect
Comment: Yes, this book covers the important topics, and overall it is pretty readable, but I wish the editors had not felt compelled to convert every single mention of Grays into rads. For example, here is a passage from the book:
"In 1964, a 38-year-old man, working in a uranium-235 recovery plant, was involved in an accidental nuclear excursion. He received a total-body dose estimated to be about 88 Gy (8,800 rads) made up of 22 Gy (2,200 rads) of neutrons and 66 Gy (6,600 rads) of gamma-rays."
The whole book is like that. The mental intrusion of such frequent parenthetical remarks would be irritating enough in any text, but in this case the conversion from Grays and rads is by a multiple of ten and so the conversion is comically unnecessary. Presumably radiation oncologists, radiologists, and radiobiologists are bright enough to be able to multiply a number by 100 in their heads. It would suffice to state in the front of the book or in an appendix the relationship between Grays and rads, and to make no further mention of rads.
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential for Radiobiology/Radiation Oncology
Comment: Not only is this book the gold standard, but it is eminently readable. It "sticks". Having seen Dr. Hall lecture I can appreciate how his text reads very much like his class lectures. Makes a topic that a radiation oncologist might find odious rather enjoyable, without sacrificing high standards and scholarly quality.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great book, by a great physic.
Comment: A must read book for radiation oncology and physics residents. All topics on radiobiology are explained in a comprehensible way. This book, plus "The Physics of Radiation Therapy", by Faiz Khan, are the basics of the knowledge for the people who are begining in the understanding of radiation physics. Great book, written for one of the best physics in the world.
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Title: The Physics of Radiation Therapy by Faiz M. Khan ISBN: 0781730651 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers Pub. Date: 31 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $139.00 |
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Title: Basic Clinical Radiobiology by G. Gordom Steel, G. Gordon Steel ISBN: 0340807830 Publisher: Edward Arnold Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging (2nd Edition) by Jerrold T. Bushberg, J. Anthony Seibert, Edwin M. Leidholdt Jr., John M. Boone ISBN: 0683301187 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $99.00 |
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Title: Physics of Radiology by Harold Elford Johns, John Robert Cunningham ISBN: 0398046697 Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd Pub. Date: December, 1983 List Price(USD): $91.95 |
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Title: Clinical Radiation Oncology by Leonard L. Gunderson, Joel E. Tepper ISBN: 044307609X Publisher: Churchill Livingstone Pub. Date: 15 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $245.00 |
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