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).
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Aug 31, 2010
Oslo, September 20-22, 2010
Aug 30, 2010
Latest publications
Dept. of Medical Physics
Radical formation in lithium formate EPR dosimeters after irradiation with protons and nitrogen ions
Radiat Res, 174 (2), 251-7
PubMed 20681791
Feasibility of contrast-enhanced cone-beam CT for target localization and treatment monitoring
Radiother Oncol (in press)
PubMed 20667609
Recommendations from Gynaecological (GYN) GEC-ESTRO Working Group: considerations and pitfalls in commissioning and applicator reconstruction in 3D image-based treatment planning of cervix cancer brachytherapy
Radiother Oncol, 96 (2), 153-60
PubMed 20663578
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