RMD630MEDICAL

DOSIMETRYI
Week 2 (9/7) Radiotherapy Process, Personnel, Radiotherapy and Data
Acquisition
Week 3 (9/14) Structure of Matter, Nuclear Transformations, &
Production of X-rays
Week 4 (9/21) Organ Movement, Immobilization, Ionizing Radiation
(Interactions and measurement)
Week 5 (9/28) Quality of X-Ray beams, Measurement of Absorbed dose
Week 6 (10/5) (KAHN TREATMENT PLANNING 6, 7) Treatment
Planning Algorithms
Week 7 (10/12) (Midterm)(PHYSICS OF KAHN CH 9, 10) Dose
Distribution / Calculations
Week 8 (10/19) (PHYSICS OF KAHN CH 11) Isodose Distributions/
Calculations Part 2
Week 9 (10/26) (QUIZ)(PHYSICS OF KAHN CH 12) Acquisition,
Verification, Inhomogeneity correction
Week 10 (11/2) (PHYSICS OF KAHN CH 13) Field Shaping, Skin
Dose, Field Specification
Week 11 (11/9) (QUIZ) (PHYSICS OF KAHN CH 14) Electron Beams
Week 12 (11/16) )(PHYSICS OF KAHN CH 19 and KAHN
TREATMENT PLANNING CH 10, 11) 3d Conformal, Intro to IMRT
Week 13 (11/23) Turkey Week
Week 14 (11/30) Review

Week 15 (12/7) Open

Week 16 (12/14) Final Exam