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Peer reviewedLaughlin, John S. – Physics Today, 1983
Traces the development of basic radiation physics that underlies much of today's medical physics and looks separately at the historical development of two major subfields of medical physics: radiation therapy and nuclear medicine. Indicates that radiation physics has made important contributions to solving biomedical problems in medical…
Descriptors: College Science, Higher Education, Medicine, Physics
