Colloquium
Who Are Medical Physicists, and What Do They Do?
Prof. Walter Huda
Department of Radiology
Medical University of South Carolina
Thursday, September 18,
2008, 12:15
p.m.,
SCIC 126
Medical Physicists are basic
scientists who apply their knowledge of physics to solve problems in
the world of medicine. The route to becoming a medical physicist will
be described, and the roles played by these individuals in Radiation
Therapy and Diagnostic Imaging will be outlined. A practical
application in the field of Computed Tomography (CT) imaging will be
described in some detail. In CT scanning, one important goal is to get
the best possible image quality at the lowest radiation dose (risk) to
the patient being scanned. Current methods for quantify image quality
as well as the corresponding patient radiation risk will be presented.
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