NERS 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Therapy, Ct Scan

• School: U of M
• Department: Nuclear Engineering And Radiological Sciences
• Course: NERS 211
• Professor: Gennady Fiksel

Document Summary

Lecture 1 notes: a brief history of the nuclear age. Key events: arguably the nuclear age began with the geiger-marsden experiment, directed by. Ernest rutherford (1909: atom shown to have miniscule, dense, positive core - the (cid:374)u(cid:272)leus proto(cid:374)s: rutherford (1918, neutrons: chadwick (1932) The discovery of fission: 1(cid:1013)33 szil rd proposes (cid:374)u(cid:272)lear (cid:272)hai(cid:374) rea(cid:272)tio(cid:374) 1(cid:1013)3(cid:1012) first (cid:272)lear evide(cid:374)(cid:272)e for ssio(cid:374) Hahn (1944 nobel prize for chemistry), strassmann, meitner and frisch: 1(cid:1013)3(cid:1013), rst e(cid:454)peri(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts perfor(cid:373)ed in us. The future for nuclear energy: future depends on many factors. Nuclear medicine: 1934 dis(cid:272)over(cid:455) of arti (cid:272)iall(cid:455) produ(cid:272)ed radioisotopes (cid:271)(cid:455) frederi(cid:272) a(cid:374)d ire(cid:374)e joliot-curie, 1937 discovery of technetium-99m, 1972/73 cat scan (now ct) and pet, radiation therapy. Very important cancer treatment: external/internal, new technologies. Conclusion: nuclear energetics and various nuclear applications will be playing a major role in the world.