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MEDICAL PHYSICS is the application of the concepts and methods of physics to the diagnosis and treatment of human disease. As you can see from the current and past schedules, medical physicists come from many fields including radiology, BME, physics, radiation safety, radiation oncology, etc. This seminar series has been running every semester since Fall 2000.
Students: For spring 2006, the course will be offered as MEDPHY 251 (and cross-listed as BME 365.02) on Thursdays 4:30-5:30 PM. For permission codes, please contact Joseph Lo PhD and clearly identify your department and grad/prof student status.
The course is co-instructed by Ehsan Samei and Joseph Lo of the Duke Advanced Imaging Labs (DAILabs) and Medical Physics Graduate Program. We meet 1 hour per week for a lecture. Grading will be based on weekly take-home quizzes as well as attendance and participation in discussion. The course is worth 1 credit hour for graduate/professional students only. (Unfortunatley, registrar policies do not allow undergraduates to take such partial credit courses.) We welcome everybody to sit in since we have an auditorium that seats 100.
For spring 2006, we have been selected as one of the Duke Digital Initiative courses which explore the use of cutting edge instructional technology. Here's the press release, scroll down or search for "medical physics" to see the paragraph describing our class.
This website is the most up-to-date source of information and supercedes anything sent previously by email or hardcopy. As the semester progresses, additional information will also be posted here and via the Blackboard site for registered students.
For more information, please email Joseph Lo.
MEDPHY 251/BME 365.02
Spring 2006
| Time: Location: | Thursdays 4:30-5:30 PM (refreshments served at 4:15) Ground Floor Auditorium, Hock Plaza, 2424 Erwin Rd |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 12 | George Gopen, PhD Duke English Dept. | Scientific Writing |
| Jan 19 | Rob Saunders, MA Duke Radiology & Physics | Impact of Resolution and Noise on Mammographic Diagnosis |
| Jan 26 | Page McAdams, MD Duke Radiology/Chest | Digital Chest Image Quality |
| Feb 2 | Sumin Zhou, PhD (organizer) Junan Zhang, PhD Devon Godfrey, PhD Oana Craciunescu, PhD Mark Oldham, PhD Duke Radiation Oncology |
Selected talks from American Society for Therapeutic Radiology & Oncology (ASTRO) and American Association of Phycisists in Medicine (AAPM): • Some Variants of the Iterative Algorithm (Zhang) • Online Digital Tomosynthesis (DTS): A Novel Technique for Improving Target Localization in Radiation Therapy (Godfrey) • Imaging Tools with Potential to Characterize Tumor Changes and Estimate Response in Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Neoadjuvant Therapies (Craciunescu) • Three dimensional imaging of tumor microvasculature and viable cell distribution using optical computed and emission tomography (Oldham) |
| Feb 9 | Dominic Crotty, BS Ada Chen, MA Amy Sharma, BS Duke BME/Radiology |
Selected talks from International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) 2006: • Experimental Spectral Measurements of Heavy K-edge Filtered Beams for X-ray Computed Mammotomography (Crotty) • Gaussian frequency blending algorithm with Matrix Inversion Tomosynthesis (MITS) and Filtered Back Projection (FBP) for better Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Reconstruction (Chen) • Rotating Slat Collimator Design for High-Energy Near-Field Imaging (Sharma) |
| Feb 16 | Vaclav Vylet, PhD Duke Radiation Safety | Multiple Facets of Health Physics |
| Feb 23 | Don Frush, MD Duke Radiology/Pediatrics | CT and Radiation Risk: the Radiologist's Perspective |
| Mar 2 | Martin Tornai, PhD Duke Radiology/Nuc. Med. | New Approaches to 3D Molecular Breast Imaging |
| Mar 9 | William Hendee, PhD Medical College of Wisc. | Creativity and Innovation in Action: Migration of the Products of Biomedical Research into the Marketplace |
| Mar 16 | No Seminar, Spring Recess | |
| Mar 23 | Zhiheng Wang, PhD Duke Radiation Oncology | Gating Applications in Radiation Therapy |
| Mar 30 | James MacFall, PhD Duke Radiology | Magnetic Resonance Monitoring of Hyperthermia Therapy |
| Apr 6 | Shiva Das, PhD Duke Radiation Oncology | Functional Image-guided Radiotherapy |
| Apr 13 | Georgia Tourassi, PhD Duke Radiology/DAI Labs | Introduction to Clinical Decision Theory |
updated 01/10/06
Other semesters: S 03 | F 03 | S 04 | F 04 | S 05 | F 05 | S 06 | F 06 |