The instructor has multiple X-rays and radioactive tracer studies resulting from his heart surgery in 1994. These will be discussed. Hand out on medical X-rays Prevention of Coronary Restenosis with Radiation Therapy , a medical research area where radiation therapy may help. More than 1.5 million people worldwide undergo coronary angioplasty, a minimally invasive procedure to relieve blockages in the arteries of the heart. A review article on Radionuclide Therapy is in the April 2000 issue of Physics Today.
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Handouts from Los Alamos. Calculation of committed dose from internal emitters. Protection from beta emitters, Ch. 15.4. Neutrons and x-rays will be compared as tools for understanding crystal structure and the surface properties of materials. Your instructor has spent a sabbatical at Los Alamos using neutrons as analytic tools and a sabbatical at Stanford using X-rays from their synchrotron.