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SIMAC Learning
Finally understand how your linac actually works
The modern online successor to Karzmark's Medical Electron Accelerators — an engineering textbook that explains the linac as a complete, integrated system, for the physicists who QA, commission, and troubleshoot it. Authored by Marco Carlone, PhD.
At a glance
Lessons
13 · divided by subsystem
Depth
~47,000 words
Format
Self-paced · 24/7
Labs
13 Full linac + 26 Guided
Author
Marco Carlone, PhD
2 Textbooks
13 lessons
13 lessons
Self-paced
available 24/7
available 24/7
Chapter
quizzes
quizzes
39 lab
exercises
exercises
Private email
support
support
Progress
dashboards
dashboards
Outcomes — Physicists
- •Understand the linac as a complete, integrated system
- •Coherent exam coverage for ABR, CCPM, RCR/IPEM & EFOMP
- •Documentable CPD / CE credit
- •A reference to return to mid-troubleshoot
Why SIMAC Learning
- Created by a practitioner — written from clinical & industry experience
- The whole system — lessons cross-reference like real subsystems
- Builds intuition — why each technology exists
- Whenever you work — self-paced, always online
Inside — 13 lessons
- FOUNDATIONS & CONTEXTHistory of radiotherapy · linac configuration
- RF POWER & CONTROLMagnetron · klystron · modulator · AFC
- BEAM PRODUCTIONWaveguide · steering · photon transport
- PERFORMANCEDose monitoring & PRF · thermal management
What's included
- 2 textbooks - Linac Operation Theory & Linac QA
- 13 lessons, each with a chapter quiz
- 13 procedure labs · 26 component & subsystem labs
- Lesson guide · electronic grading & feedback
- Student monitoring dashboards · web 24/7
- Free SIMAC access
Subscription Details
A textbook and lab set — the engineering knowledge layer. The configurable SIMAC Machine & Water Tank instruments are separate products.
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