MEDPH - Medical Physics
Offered By:
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Below are the courses available from the MEDPH code. Select a course to view the available classes, additional class notes, and class times.
Fundamentals of radiation physics, production and properties of ionizing radiation and their interactions with matter and tissue. Interactions of photons and of charged particles with matter. Concepts of radiation dosimetry (theoretical and experimental, cavity theory and ionization chambers). Students can obtain credit in at most one of MEDPH 450 or ONCOL 550. Restricted to undergraduate students in the Honors Physics degree. Prerequisite: PHYS 381
Theory and practical techniques of external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy. Topics include single and multiple external beams, scatter analysis, inhomogeneity corrections, intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), dose calculation algorithms, fundamentals of brachytherapy, and brachytherapy dosimetry systems. Credit can be obtained in at most one of MEDPH 452 and ONCOL 552. Restricted to undergraduate students in the Honors Physics degree. Prerequisite: MEDPH 450 and consent of the Department.
A system theory approach to the production, analysis, processing and reconstruction of medical images. An extensive use of Fourier techniques is used to describe the processes involved with conventional radiographic detectors, digital and computed radiography. Review and application of image processing techniques used in diagnostic and therapeutic medicine. Restricted to undergraduate students in the Honors Physics degree. Credit can be obtained in at most one of MEDPH 462 and ONCOL 562. Prerequisites: Consent of the Department and MA PH 351 or MATH 311 and MATH 337.
Rigorous development of the physics of x-ray production, interaction and detection in diagnostic radiology, including mammography and ultrasound. In-depth analysis of analog and digital systems in radiography and fluoroscopy is given. The description and design of computed tomographic systems as well as the associated reconstruction algorithms from single to multislice helical systems are studied. Restricted to undergraduate students in the Honors Physics degree. Credit can be obtained in at most one of MEDPH 486 and ONCOL 568. Prerequisites: MEDPH 450, MEDPH 462, and consent of department.