Category: Basic Educational Materials

Convert from EQD2 to Physical Dose (& Physical Dose to EQD2) using inputs of total dose (cGy), fractions, and alpha/beta…

Plan doses can be converted to their 2 Gy equivalent forms (EQD2), which allows these values to have…

The quality of a radiation beam refers to its penetrating ability and is ideally specified by…

In the orthovoltage era, the skin was the limiting organ to delivering radiation.The skin erythema…

The accuracy of a delivered photon treatment is more of an isocentricity question in that if the…

As radiation pass through media, it may strip electrons from atoms. This kind of radiation is…

Protons that traverse through a medium can interact by inelastic collisions or elastic scattering…

The linear accelerator uses high-frequency electromagnetic waves to accelerate electrons to…

A vacuum sealed x-ray tube is made up of a cathode (negative electrode) and anode (positive…

A radioactive nucleus with excess energy may distribute enough energy onto a nucleon for it…

The atom is made up of a nucleus and a surrounding electron cloud that orbits the nucleus…