Primary Readership:  Diagnostic radiology residents (1500/year USA); radiation oncology residents (250/year USA); medical physics and bioengineering graduate students (1500/year USA).   Secondary Readership:  radiation oncology technologists (1500+/year USA); X-ray technologists (18,000/year USA); nuclear medicine technologists (2000/year USA); general radiology technologists (10,000/year); medical physics and bioengineering undergraduate students; engineers interested in medical problems, medical physicists preparing for maintenance of certification; practicing radiologists, cardiologists and other physicians (thousands); government officials and lawyers.

This book provides a thorough yet concise introduction to quantitative radiobiology and radiation physics, particularly the practical and medical application. Beginning with a discussion of the basic science of radiobiology, the book explains the fast processes that initiate damage in irradiated tissue and the kinetic patterns in which such damage is expressed at the cellular level. The final section is presented in a highly practical handbook style and offers application-based discussions in radiation oncology, fractionated radiotherapy, and protracted radiation among others. The text is also supplemented by a Web site.