Principles of Radiation Interactions

Lecture Notes

SES #	TOPICS
1	Course Intro/Cells and Tissues Overview
2	Radiation Interactions (PDF)
3	Radiation Interactions (cont.) (PDF 1) (PDF 2) (PDF 3)
4	Radiation Chemistry/LET/Tracks (PDF)
5	Effects on Chromosomes/DNA (PDF 1) (PDF 2)
6	Dose Response in Vitro: Cell Survival Curves (PDF 1) (PDF 2)
7	RBE/Clustered Damage (PDF)
8	Protons and Alphas of same LET (PDF)
9	Dose Response in Vivo (PDF)
10	Chemical Modification of Radiation Response (PDF 1) (PDF 2)
11	Cell, Tissue and Tumor Kinetics (PDF)
12	Exam 1
13	Radiation Therapy: Tumor Radiobiology (PDF)
14	Radiation Therapy (contd.): Fractionation (PDF)
15	Acute Effects of Whole Body Exposure (PDF)
16	Late Effects: Chronic Exposure/Low Doses (PDF)
17	Radiation Protection/Background Radiation/Radon (PDF)
18	Alpha Particles/Bystander Effect (PDF)
19	Microbeams (PDF)
20	RBE of Diagnostic X Rays
21	BNCT/Other Modalities (PDF)
22	Space
23	Space (cont.)
24	Exam 2
25	Oral Term Paper Presentations