User:KieranMaher

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Background information to the Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine wikibook:

I was introduced to this subject in 1972 by Dr Jim Malone while studying at the College of Technology, Kevin St, Dublin, Ireland. I was doing the third year of a technician's diploma course in applied physics. Some five years later I was lecturing in the same course and adapted Jim's notes for my lectures. I was also working at this time as a physicist in nuclear medicine at the nearby Meath Hospital. I further adapted the notes for lectures within a physics degree course at Kevin Street. And later still for a medical radiations degree course at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. As such the notes benefitted considerably on the basis of questions from students as well as comments from clinical and academic colleagues. By 1997 I was using the notes on a visiting professorship at Kuwait University. Whilst there I was inspired out of boredom to formalise the notes into a textbook. I subsequently developed the book into a set of webpages which lay dormant on a cd-rom for five years or more. Until mid-2006, when I uploaded them to wikibooks.....

I'm interested in learning about the WikiBooks phenomenon by engaging with it and exploring its potential for the continuous evolution of instructional resources.

see http://homepage.mac.com/kieranmaher/physics.html for more info.