William V. Prestwich

Professor Emeritus Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University McMaster University  Hamilton, ON  L8S 4M1  Office:  NRB-232 Phone: 905-525-9140 x24498 FAX: 905-522-5982 E-mail: prestwic@mcmaster.ca Research Area: Medical Physics

Research Interest

W.V. Prestwich obtained his B.Sc. in 1960 and his Ph.D. in 1963 at McMaster. His doctoral research involved the beta-decay of short-lived fission products.

From 1963-1965 he assisted in the development of the programme in capture gamma-ray spectroscopy at the McMaster Nuclear Reactor. From 1965-1967, he was a research scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, Ill. He was engaged in studies in neutron physics at A.N.L. as well as in mu-mesic atoms in a collaborative programme with the Carnegie-Mellon cyclotron group. He joined the physics department in 1967, initiating research in the measurement of the lifetimes of excited states populated by radiative capture. During sabbatical leave in 1974, he performed research in medical physics at the University of Birmingham.

He is currently engaged in radiation physics and its application to health and medical physics. These studies include radiative transport, theoretical and experimental dosimetry and microdosimetry. They form part of a collaborative research programme with the Hamilton Regional Cancer Centre.
 

Selected Publications

• "Modelling DNA Damage Induced by Different Energy Photons and Tritium Beta-Particles", V.V. Moiseenko, R.N. Hamm, A.J. Waker, W.V. Prestwich. International Journal of Radiation Biology. 37, (5) (1998), 533-550.

• "The Cellular Environment in Computer Simulations of Radiation-Induced Damage to DNA", V.V. Moiseenko, R.N. Hamm, A.J. Waker, W.V. Prestwich. Radiat. Environ. Biophysics. 37, (1998), 167-172.

• "A Statistical Investigation of the Scaling Factor Method of Beta-Ray Dose Distribution Derivation, the Scaling Factor for Water to Bone", S.M. Marcu, W.V. Prestwich. Medical Physics Journal, American Association of Physicists in Medicine. 25, (8) 1998, 1472-1477.

• "Application of the Scaling Factor Method to Estimation of Beta Dose Distributions for Dissimilar Media Separated by a Planar Interface", S.M. Marcu, W.V. Prestwich. Medical Physics Journal, American Association of Physicists in Medicine. 25, (8) 1998, 1478-1486.

• "Monte Carlo Simulation of Source-Excited in vivo x-ray fluorescence measurements of heavy metals", J.M. O'Meara, D.R. Chettle, F.E. McNeill, W.V. Prestwich, and C.E. Svensson. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 43, (1998) 1413-1427.

• " Development of An Accelerator Based Determination of Aluminum Burden in Peripheral Bone by Neutron Activation Analysis", A. Pejovic-Milic, F.E. McNeill, W.V. Prestwich, A.J. Waker, and D.R. Chettle. Appl. Radiat. Isot. 49, (1998) 717-719.

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