Welcome to the Department of Medical Physics
The Department of Medical Physics provides relevant services within radiation therapy and image diagnostics, offers courses and performs research and development. The Department comprises 26 physicists, 13 engineers and about 120 radiotherapy tehcnicians. Relevant equipment for diagnostics and therapy includes 2 CT scanners, 1 dedicated MR scanner, 10 linear accelerators for external radiotherapy and HDR brachytherapy devices for intracavitary/interstitial treatments. Also, the department has access to a PET/CT scanner. About 3000 patients are treated each year at the Department.
The Department of Medical Physics is responsible for the quality of patient diagnostics and treatments with the aforementioned equipment, and that the equipment is of the highest standards possible. The employees work with, among others, diagnostic imaging, radiotherapy planning and dosimetry (measurements and calculations of radiation doses).
18FDG Positron emisson tomography (PET) / comptuted tomography (CT) of a patient presenting a tumor in the upper right lung (left). The patient was successfully treated with fractionated radiotherapy, showing no residual mass after treatment (right).
This page is under construction!
Latest publications
Dept. of Medical Physics
A multicentre comparison of the dosimetric impact of inter- and intra-fractional anatomical variations in fractionated cervix cancer brachytherapy
Radiother Oncol (in press)
PubMed 23602372
Dose Distribution in the Heart and Cardiac Chambers Following 4-field Radiation Therapy of Breast Cancer: a Retrospective Study
Breast Cancer (Auckl), 7, 41-9
PubMed 23589693
Intermittent and continuous imatinib in a human GIST xenograft model carrying KIT exon 17 resistance mutation D816H
Acta Oncol, 52 (4), 776-82
PubMed 23480638
More publications




Print this page
