Radiation Detection and Protection

Catalog description

This course will discuss and explain the necessary theoretical concepts and practical procedures of radiation detection and protection. These ideas and procedures are used in implementing the standards and practices that safeguard radiation personnel, radiation therapy and nuclear medicine patients, and members of the general public from unintended exposures to ionizing radiation. This course work, together with the student’s later internship in the hospital setting, will provide the student with adequate knowledge and the clinical practice for keeping these unintended exposures to patient, personnel, and members of the general public As Low As Reasonably Achievable. These ideas will be explained in the course through lectures, power point presentations and class discussions. Emphasis will always be on tying together all the concepts presented.