Supplementary on-line book: The Monte Carlo book (Yes! There are missing figures!)

Old handwritten notes: for those who may still using them

Matlab refresher course: Teach yourself Matlab

How to make nice plots in Matlab This was used to make the plot on the last Slide of N1
The Script M-file was also appended to N1.

Picture of Pedro Andreo, lead auithor on the FIORD book Pedro Andreo

Lecture 1 material:

First Chapter on-line notes (required)

First Chapter of FIORD, sections 1.1 and 1.2 (required)

Supplementary readings for this lecture ...

What is Radiological Physics

DNA damage

Pictures of 10 base pairs

IAEA document on International Radiation Standards

Excellent Wiki page on water radicals, DNA and cancer

Jurgen Debus's lecture on "Accelerators for Medicine"

Basics of LINAC design (seminar by Ivan Kunovic)

Paper 1 on Water Radiolysis

Paper 2 on Water Radiolysis

Special Topics:

1) History of Monte Carlo in Medical Physics:

A book chapter from Monte Carlo Techniques in Radiation Therapy

2) Basics of the Monte Carlo method:

A Chapter from "Handbook of Radiotherapy Physics: Theory and Practice

The Monte Carlo book

3) Magnetic fields in Radiotherapy:

3 papers associated with magnetic fields in Radiotherapy: 1 2 3

4) Fluence detectors (inverse-square effect):

A paper that describes how to design an ideal fluence detector 1

5) Large-size chamber inverse-square anomalies:

A paper that explains and resolves a particular problem with large detectors 1

6) The odd case of spherical detectors:

2 papers that discuss this: the theory and the experimental proof

7) Advanced electron Monte Carlo transport algorithms:

8 papers that discuss this: the PRESTA algorithm and subsequent refinements: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

8) Analytic theory of ionization chambers:

7 papers that discuss this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 in addition to some of the papers in the previous categories