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.
Across 2 Textbooks - 13 self-paced lessons - (roughly 47,000 words, with figures, tables, and worked equations), SIMAC Learning explains it all — from the modulator and RF source through the waveguide, AFC, and beam-steering systems to dose monitoring and photon production. Authored by Marco Carlone, PhD, who brings both clinical and accelerator industry experience.
What's inside — 13 lessons
History of radiotherapy technology · overall linac configuration
Magnetron · klystron · modulator · waveforms · automatic frequency control
Accelerator waveguide · electron beams · beam steering · photon transport
Dose monitoring & PRF · heat and 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
- Lab evaluation questions and answer keys
- Lesson guide · electronic grading & feedback
- Student monitoring dashboards
- Private email support · progress tracking, web-based 24/7
Why SIMAC Learning
Written from clinical and industry experience — not abstracted from a vendor manual.
Lessons cross-reference the way the real subsystems do.
Understand why each technology exists, not just what it does.
Self-paced and online — a reference you return to mid-troubleshoot.
What it does — and doesn't do today
SIMAC Learning is the engineering knowledge layer — the reading, labs, and assessment. The configurable virtual-linac instruments are separate SIMAC products.
- ›Explains the linac as a complete, integrated system
- ›Maps to CAMPEP / IPEM / EFOMP / ACPSEM competency requirements
- ›Coherent exam coverage for ABR, CCPM, RCR/IPEM, EFOMP candidates
- ›Documentable CPD/CE; a reference for mid-troubleshoot use
- ›It is a textbook and lab set — knowledge, not a clinical tool
- ›The configurable SIMAC Machine & Water Tank are sold separately
- ›Individual and program/group licensing available
Two product families, one platform.
SIMAC Training products teach the machine — every one of them includes SIMAC Learning and the SIMAC Machine Education Edition. SIMAC Digital Twin products model your machine — sold per machine, per beam model, and all built on SIMAC Machine as the base.
Includes SIMAC Learning + SIMAC Machine or free SIMAC access
Per machine, per beam model · requires SIMAC Machine · buy as a bundle
2 Textbooks, 13 lessons (~47,000 words), 13 procedure labs, 26 component & subsystem labs with evaluation questions and answer keys, progress tracking, private instructor email, and free SIMAC access.
The full SIMAC Machine. SIMAC Learning is the textbook and labs; the courses and teaching packages add the Standard simulator and instruction on top.