Microdosimetric Response of Physical and Biological Systems to Low- and High-LET Radiations
Theory and Applications to Dosimetry

Yigal Horowitz (Edited by)

9780444516435, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 7 June 2006

500 pages
24 x 16.5 x 3 cm, 1.03 kg

One of the aims of this book was to focus the attention of specialists to the diversity of the effects of the ionising radiation on biological and physical systems. Special emphasis has been placed on the exquisite complexities/differences introduced by high ionisation density versus low ionisation density irradiation in both biological and physical systems (Scholz – Chapter 1, Horowitz – Chapter 2, Olko – Chapter 3). As well we wanted to point out the need for novel experimental and theoretical approaches required to advance the important fields of micro and nanodosimetry. Important first steps have already been taken, for example, the accelerated application of semiconductor detectors in their various forms to microdosimetry and as well to practical, important applications in the radiation dosimetry of oncological procedures (Rosenfeld – Chapter 6). The vast number of applications of TLD to radiation dosimetry are not neglected; a special chapter is devoted to the application of TLDs to medical dosimetry applications (Mobit and Kron – Chapter 7) as well as a tutorial approach in an additional chapter to the cavity theories required to extrapolate dose from the detector medium to the tissue medium (Mobit and Sandison - Chapter 5). One of the major features of this book is the intensive, in depth, coverage of the theory and modelling of TL both from the solid state physics point of view (Chen – Chapter 4) and the microdosimetic point of view (Horowitz – Chapter 2 and Olko – Chapter 3). The many puzzling, quaint, quizzical features of TL science can now be understood in the framework of these advanced theoretical models, explained in straightforward, understandable terms.

1. Dose Response of Biological Systems to Low- and High-LET Radiation (M. Scholz)
2. A Unified and Comprehensive Theory of the TL Dose Response of Thermoluminescent Systems Applied to LiF:Mg, Ti (Y. Horowitz)
3. Microdosimetric Interpretation of Photon Energy Response in TL Systems (P. Olko)
4. Dose Dependence of Thermoluminescence (TL) and Optically Stimulated Luminescence with Uniform Excitation (R. Chen)
5. Cavity Theory (P. Mobit and G. Sandison)
6. Semi-Conductor Radiation Detectors in Modern Radiation Therapy (A.B. Rosenfeld)
7. Applications of Thermoluminescent Dosemeters in Medicine (P. Mobit and T. Kron)

Subject Areas: Biophysics [PHVN], Atomic & molecular physics [PHM]