581 *Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army; Health Services Command Radiation Protection Staff Officer, Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234-6000; formerly Chief, Health Physics Division, U.S. Army Environmental Hygiene Agency †Chief, Industrial Health Physics Branch, Health Physics Division, U.S. Army Environmental Hygiene Agency ‡Captain, U.S. Army; Chief, Medical Health Physics Branch, U.S. Army Environmen...

Medical Physics is a field of applied physics and as such a comparatively young discipline. The roots of Medical Physics go back to the application of ionising radiation in diagnostics and therapy in the beginning of the last century. Between the years 1950 and 1970, the increasing importance and specialisation of Medical Physics led to the foundation of Medical Physics societies in most Europe...

The author describes this volume as a text-book which, in conjunction with the Manual of Chemistry by Luff and Page, recently noticed in our columns, serves to cover all the chemistry and physics?both theoretical and practical?required by the Conjoint Board and the Society of Apothecaries. In reality it i^ a well-illustrated syllabus, and excellently adapted to the needs of the teacher, and jus...

Charged particle beams offer an improved dose conformation to the target volume when compared with photon radiotherapy, with better sparing of normal tissue structures close to the target. In addition, beams of heavier ions exhibit a strong increase of the linear energy transfer in the Bragg peak when compared with the entrance region. These physical and biological properties make ion beams mor...