Nuclear Medicine Physics

Nuclear Medicine Physics
Author: Dale L. Bailey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9789201438102

This publication provides the basis for the education of medical physicists initiating their university studies in the field of nuclear medicine. The handbook includes 20 chapters and covers topics relevant to nuclear medicine physics, including basic physics for nuclear medicine, radionuclide production, imaging and non-imaging detectors, quantitative nuclear medicine, internal dosimetry in clinical practice and radionuclide therapy. It provides, in the form of a syllabus, a comprehensive overview of the basic medical physics knowledge required for the practice of medical physics in modern nuclear medicine.

Nuclear Physics in a Nutshell

Nuclear Physics in a Nutshell
Author: Carlos A. Bertulani
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2007-04-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1400839327

Nuclear Physics in a Nutshell provides a clear, concise, and up-to-date overview of the atomic nucleus and the theories that seek to explain it. Bringing together a systematic explanation of hadrons, nuclei, and stars for the first time in one volume, Carlos A. Bertulani provides the core material needed by graduate and advanced undergraduate students of physics to acquire a solid understanding of nuclear and particle science. Nuclear Physics in a Nutshell is the definitive new resource for anyone considering a career in this dynamic field. The book opens by setting nuclear physics in the context of elementary particle physics and then shows how simple models can provide an understanding of the properties of nuclei, both in their ground states and excited states, and also of the nature of nuclear reactions. It then describes: nuclear constituents and their characteristics; nuclear interactions; nuclear structure, including the liquid-drop model approach, and the nuclear shell model; and recent developments such as the nuclear mean-field and the nuclear physics of very light nuclei, nuclear reactions with unstable nuclear beams, and the role of nuclear physics in energy production and nucleosynthesis in stars. Throughout, discussions of theory are reinforced with examples that provide applications, thus aiding students in their reading and analysis of current literature. Each chapter closes with problems, and appendixes address supporting technical topics.

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Physics
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1999-03-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309173663

Dramatic progress has been made in all branches of physics since the National Research Council's 1986 decadal survey of the field. The Physics in a New Era series explores these advances and looks ahead to future goals. The series includes assessments of the major subfields and reports on several smaller subfields, and preparation has begun on an overview volume on the unity of physics, its relationships to other fields, and its contributions to national needs. Nuclear Physics is the latest volume of the series. The book describes current activity in understanding nuclear structure and symmetries, the behavior of matter at extreme densities, the role of nuclear physics in astrophysics and cosmology, and the instrumentation and facilities used by the field. It makes recommendations on the resources needed for experimental and theoretical advances in the coming decade.

Physics of Unstable Nuclei

Physics of Unstable Nuclei
Author: Dao Tien Khoa
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2008
Genre: Science
ISBN: 981277615X

This volume features contributions by the leading authorities on the physics of unstable nuclei. It provides an important updated source in the nuclear physics literature for the researchers and post-graduates studying nuclear physics with unstable beams around the world. The focus is on the new experimental facilities for the production of unstable beams and on the latest developments in microscopic theories of nuclear structure and reactions. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: STUDIES at the RIKEN RI BEAM FACTORY (625 KB). Contents: Studies at the RIKEN RI Beam Factory (T Motobayashi); Dilute Nuclear States (M Freer); The ICHOR Project and Spin-Isospin Physics with Unstable Beams (H Sakai); Nuclear Reactions with Weakly-Bound Systems: The Treatment of the Continuum (C H Dasso & A Vitturi); Dynamic Evolution of Three-Body Decaying Resonances (A S Jensen et al.); Angular Dispersion Behavior in Heavy Ion Elastic Scattering (A Wang et al.); Microscopic Optical Potential in Relativistic Approach (Z Yu Ma et al.); Thermal Pairing in Nuclei (N D Dang); Low-Momentum Interactions for Nuclei (A Schwenk); Invariant Mass Spectroscopy of Halo Nuclei (T Nakamura et al.); Knockout Reaction Spectroscopy of Exotic Nuclei (J A Tostevin); Pairing Correlations in Halo Nuclei (H Sagawa & K Hagino); Study of Giant Dipole Resonance in Continuum Relativistic Random Phase Approximation (D Yang et al.); A Study of Pairing Interaction in a Separable Form (Y Tian et al.); Microscopic Calculations Based on a Skyrme Functional Plus the Pairing Contribution (J Li et al.); The Effect of the Tensor Force on Single-Particle States and on the Isotope Shift (W Zou et al.); and other papers. Readership: Researchers, advanced graduates and post-graduates in nuclear physics.

Modern Nuclear Physics

Modern Nuclear Physics
Author: Alexandre Obertelli
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 739
Release: 2021-09-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811622892

This textbook is a unique and ambitious primer of nuclear physics, which introduces recent theoretical and experimental progresses starting from basics in fundamental quantum mechanics. The highlight is to offer an overview of nuclear structure phenomena relevant to recent key findings such as unstable halo nuclei, superheavy elements, neutron stars, nucleosynthesis, the standard model, lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD), and chiral effective theory. An additional attraction is that general properties of nuclei are comprehensively explained from both the theoretical and experimental viewpoints. The book begins with the conceptual and mathematical basics of quantum mechanics, and goes into the main point of nuclear physics – nuclear structure, radioactive ion beam physics, and nuclear reactions. The last chapters devote interdisciplinary topics in association with astrophysics and particle physics. A number of illustrations and exercises with complete solutions are given. Each chapter is comprehensively written starting from fundamentals to gradually reach modern aspects of nuclear physics with the objective to provide an effective description of the cutting edge in the field.

University Physics

University Physics
Author: OpenStax
Publisher:
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2016-11-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781680920451

University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 1 covers mechanics, sound, oscillations, and waves. Volume 2 covers thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, and Volume 3 covers optics and modern physics. This textbook emphasizes connections between between theory and application, making physics concepts interesting and accessible to students while maintaining the mathematical rigor inherent in the subject. Frequent, strong examples focus on how to approach a problem, how to work with the equations, and how to check and generalize the result. The text and images in this textbook are grayscale.

An Introduction to the Physics of Nuclear Medicine

An Introduction to the Physics of Nuclear Medicine
Author: Laura Harkness-Brennan
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2018-06-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1643270346

The complexity and vulnerability of the human body has driven the development of a diverse range of diagnostic and therapeutic techniques in modern medicine. The Nuclear Medicine procedures of Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) and Radionuclide Therapy are well-established in clinical practice and are founded upon the principles of radiation physics. This book will offer an insight into the physics of nuclear medicine by explaining the principles of radioactivity, how radionuclides are produced and administered as radiopharmaceuticals to the body and how radiation can be detected and used to produce images for diagnosis. The treatment of diseases such as thyroid cancer, hyperthyroidism and lymphoma by radionuclide therapy will also be explored.

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Physics
Author: M. G. Bowler
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2013-09-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1483151751

Nuclear Physics is concerned primarily with low-energy nuclear physics rather than high-energy or elementary particle physics, although examples from particle physics are used where appropriate. The Fermi Golden Rule is given emphasis throughout. This text consists of six chapters and begins with an introduction to nuclear physics, followed by a discussion on nuclear structure at a fairly basic level. This book also discusses the nuclear periodic table, radioactivity, and unstable nuclear states as well as nuclear mass and nuclear binding energy. Spin and static electric and magnetic moments are then examined from the perspective of quantum mechanics rather than through the vector model of angular momentum. Quantum mechanics is also used to treat nuclear decay in the next chapter. The theory of nuclear reactions is discussed by highlighting the concepts of cross-section and resonance. The penultimate chapter deals with self-sustaining nuclear reactions, with particular reference to the nuclear physics of fission reactors and the nuclear aspects of stellar physics. This chapter ends with the application of the theory of thermonuclear reactions to the design of a thermonuclear power plant. The final chapter is devoted to charge independence and isospin in low-energy nuclear physics.

Nuclear Structure Physics

Nuclear Structure Physics
Author: Amritanshu Shukla
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2020-10-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000172686

Nuclear structure Physics connects to some of our fundamental questions about the creation of universe and its basic constituents. At the same time, precise knowledge on the subject has lead to develop many important tools of human kind such as proton therapy, radioactive dating etc. This book contains chapters on some of the crucial and trending research topics in nuclear structure, including the nuclei lying on the extremes of spin, isospin and mass. A better theoretical understanding of these topics is important beyond the confines of the nuclear structure community. Additionally, the book will showcase the applicability and success of the different nuclear effective interaction parameters near the drip line, where hints for level reordering have already been seen, and where one can test the isospin-dependence of the interaction. The book offers comprehensive coverage of the most essential topics, including: • Nuclear Structure of Nuclei at or Near Drip-Lines • Synthesis challenges and properties of Superheavy nuclei • Nuclear Structure and Nuclear models - Ab-initio calculations, cluster models, Shell-model/DSM, RMF, Skyrme • Shell Closure, Magicity and other novel features of nuclei at extremes • Structure of Toroidal, Bubble Nuclei, halo and other exotic nuclei These topics are not only very interesting from theoretical nuclear physics perspective but are also quite complimentary for ongoing nuclear physics experimental program worldwide. It is hoped that the book chapters written by experienced and well known researchers/experts will be helpful for the master students, graduate students and researchers and serve as a standard & uptodate research reference book on the topics covered.

Radiation Detection for Nuclear Physics

Radiation Detection for Nuclear Physics
Author: David Jenkins
Publisher: Programme: Iop Expanding Physi
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-11-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780750314299

Radiation detection is key to experimental nuclear physics as well as underpinning a wide range of applications in nuclear decommissioning, homeland security and medical imaging. This book presents the state-of-the-art in radiation detection of light and heavy ions, beta particles, gamma rays and neutrons. The underpinning physics of different detector technologies is presented, and their performance is compared and contrasted. Detector technology likely to be encountered in contemporary international laboratories is also emphasized. There is a strong focus on experimental design and mapping detector technology to the needs of a particular measurement problem. This book will be invaluable to PhD students in experimental nuclear physics and nuclear technology, as well as undergraduate students encountering projects based on radiation detection for the first time. Key Features Provides clear, concise descriptions of key detection techniques Describes detector types with "telescopic depth", so readers can go as deep as they wish Covers real-world applications including short case studies in industry