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Book Review

Medical radiation physics. By William Hendee, pp. 599 (372 illus.), 1970 (Chicago, Yearbook Medical Publishers), £11·70.

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Yet another excellent text-book on the physics of medical radiology has come from across the Atlantic. Dr. Hendee has used tape recordings of his lecture courses, to resident physicians in radiology, radiologic technologists and students beginning graduate study in medical physics, given at the University of Colorado Medical School, as the basis for this book. The result is a lucid and up-to-date account of the physical bases of the medical uses of ionizing radiations which will compete on equal terms with existing sources of education in this field, particularly in the medical postgraduate study for the radiological diplomas, save for the author's deliberate exclusion of the radiobiological aspects of the subject. The mathematics necessary for an understanding of the text extends no further than to elementary calculus, and to that only rarely. The inherent difficulty imposed by limiting the involvement of mathematics is overcome by an adequate description of the symbols used in a stated equation, so that its manner of use is understood even if its derivation remains obscure. The m.k.s. system of units is adopted throughout with occasional reference to the c.g.s. system in the interests of clarity.