Course Name:
Clinical Applications of Physics in Medicine
Other Course Description or Assignment Information:
Medical physics is a rapidly developing science field where the strong interference of
physics, biology and medicine has a large and growing impact on our health care system.
This course gives an overview about the physics foundations and recent technical
developments of medical imaging and medical treatment techniques
. A special emphasize is put on accelerator-based cancer therapy which revolutionizes the way cancer can be cured
through special isotope production, hadron therapy and targeted radiation treatments.
Topics include:
Imaging:
•General image characteristics and image reconstruction
•X-ray detection and X-ray radiography
•Computed tomography
•Planar scintigraphy, SPECT
•PET and PET/CT
•MRI
Treatment:
•Cancer Treatment using photons and electrons
•Foundations of hadron cancer therapy
•Particle accelerators and nuclear reactions
•Production of radioisotopes using ISOL
•Targeted radiation cancer therapy
Textbook:N. Smith, A. Webb: Introduction to Medical Imaging, Cambridge
Univ. Press 2010.
There is no single textbook which covers the complete course.
Projected Class Enrolment: