Has anybody had the chance to peek at this book yet? Sounds pretty juicy...could this be the Cliffs Notes for the radonc physics board? I think it just came out. I hope our library gets a copy.
Radiation Oncology: A Physicist's-Eye View
by
Michael Goitein (Author)
I like the title a lot.
It's hard to gauge how the book will be. At first glance, I was thrown off by the book's synopsis, namely that it's written for "physicists and medical oncologists with the aim of helping them approach the use of radiation in the treatment of cancer with understanding, confidence, and imagination." Written for medical oncologists?? Surely then, it must be quite basic as it relates to radiation physics.
However, Amazon lets you peek inside the book. It only lets you see a few pages, of course, and by default, you only get to see the cover, table of contents, a short excerpt from the introduction, and the index. (And let's not forget the ever-useful copyright page.)
The content in the excerpt is very basic -- like Coia basic. But that material is from the introduction chapter, so you'd expect it to be basic even if it's a pretty good physics book.
If you click on "Surprise Me", you can see even more pages (at random). Also, try typing various terms in the search box and it will search the book for those terms. It seems to only search the few pages that it has scanned, but doing so can give you a fair idea about the book's content.
By doing the above, I got a fair glimpse at the book, and it seems it goes into fairly good detail about some things. He covers topics like EUD, TCP, deformable image registration, and so on. Maybe it's not as basic as I thought at first.
This is just looking through a keyhole, so it's still hard to tell if this book can replace Khan for the physics knowledge that a resident will need to have.
