LECTURE NOTES IN MEDICAL ENGINEERING

The fascinating Random Walk of X-ray Photons through the Body

X-ray Photon-Matter Interaction

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Welcome back to Medical Engineering. So today we want to talk a little bit more about x-rays and in particular what happens when the x-rays hit the body and how they interact with the tissues inside of the body. So this will be the interaction of photons on matter in a summary of all the things that can happen.

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So let’s go back to our slides here and this is part 2 of x-rays and now we will discuss the interaction of…