Principles of Computer Aided Radiation Dosimetry
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[edit] Course Title:
Principles of Computer Aided Radiation Dosimetry
[edit] Course No.:
RADI 6036
[edit] Instructor:
Robert G. Waggener, Ph.D.
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[edit] Credits:
3
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[edit] Course Outline
Students are required to develop and demonstrate their own computer programs in any language they please for the following topics. Course grade is determined by the student's program. This is a demanding course and students should not take it until after they are finished with other courses and the qualifying examination and are definitely committed to a therapy physics career. The course can be useful for therapy physics research projects.
[edit] List of Topics
- Curve description using different degree polynomials and other math relationships.
- Area and volume calculations for irregular shaped fields extraction of radii for use in Clarkson method.
- Newton-Cotes interpolation for existing data, numerical Taylor's series.
- Convolution and correlation smoothing and filtering of noisy data.
- Tissue-Air Ratio, Tumor Maximum Ratio, Scatter Air Ratio, Scatter Maximum Ratio calculation and derivation using measured Percent Depth Dose data.
- Tissue Inhomogeneity corrections
- Dose calculation at discrete points in patients or phantoms using primary dose and scatter dose from Clarkson calculation.
- Dose calculations at multiple points and isodose display.
- Bracytherapy dose calculations using buildup and attenuation curves and breaking source into smaller increments for calculations.
- Three-dimensional geometry, 3-D projection and viewing, beams eye display, rotation, translation in 3-D.
- Dose kernel calculations involving convolution or superposition techniques.
- Introduction to Monte Carlo techniques.
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