# Clinical Applications of Physics in Medicine (PHYS*4070)

Code and section: PHYS*4070*01

Term: Winter 2017

Instructor: Dennis Mücher

## Course Information

### Instruction

Lecturer Office Email
Dennis Mücher MacN 224 dmuecher@uoguelph.ca

#### Office hours

Thursday, 1 -3 pm in my office (MacN 224)
Please visit me at any time in my office or via email (dmuecher@uoguelph.ca)

### Lectures

Day Time Location
Tuesday, Thursday 10:00 am – 11:20 am MacN 101

### Lecture Content

Medical physics is a rapidly developing science field where the strong interference of physics, biology and medicine has a large and growing impact on our health care system. This course gives an overview about the physics foundations and recent technical developments of medical imaging and medical treatment techniques. A special emphasize is put on accelerator-based cancer therapy which revolutionizes the way cancer can be cured through special isotope production, hadron therapy and targeted radiation treatments. Topics include:

#### Imaging

• General image characteristics and image reconstruction
• X-ray detection and X-ray radiography
• Computed tomography
• Planar scintigraphy, SPECT
• PET and PET/CT
• MRI

#### Treatment

• Cancer Treatment using photons and electrons
• Foundations of hadron cancer therapy
• Particle accelerators and nuclear reactions
• Production of radioisotopes using ISOL

### Course Materials

#### Textbook

There is no single textbook which covers the complete course. I will be posting my lecture notes and additional material onto courselink. To some extend, we will closely follow this book: N. Smith, A. Webb: Introduction to Medical Imaging, Cambridge Univ. Press 2010. There is a hardcover (~100$) as well as an e-book version (~75$) available. Includes clinical examples and exercises.

Evaluation

Assessment Weight Due Dates
Assignments 30% (24/01, 02/02, 14/02, 07/03, 16/03, 30/03)
Midterm 30% (Wednesday, 01 March 2017, 7pm - 9pm)
Final Exam 40% (Thursday 21 April 2016, 7pm – 9pm)

Assignments will have extra questions (bonus questions for undergraduate students) for graduate students. Furthermore, graduate students are supposed to give a short oral presentation on a selected topic in the last week of class.

## Course Policies

### E-mail Communication

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### When You Cannot Meet a Course Requirement

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### Drop Date

The last date to drop one-semester courses, without academic penalty, is Friday, March 10, 2017. For regulations and procedures for Dropping Courses, see the Undergraduate Calendar.

Copies of out-of-class assignments

Keep paper and/or other reliable back-up copies of all out-of-class assignments: you may be asked to resubmit work at any time.

### Accessibility

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For more information, contact CSD at 519-824-4120 ext. 56208 or email sas@uoguelph.ca or see the accessibility website.

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### Recording of Materials

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### Resources

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### Course Evaluation Information

The Department of Physics requires student assessment of all courses taught by the Department. These assessments provide essential feedback to faculty on their teaching by identifying both strengths and possible areas of improvement. In addition, annual student assessment of teaching provides part of the information used by the Department Tenure and Promotion Committee in evaluating the faculty member's contribution in the area of teaching.

The Department's teaching evaluation questionnaire invites student response both through numerically quantifiable data, and written student comments. In conformity with University of Guelph Faculty Policy, the Department Tenure and Promotions Committee only considers comments signed by students. Your instructor will see all signed and unsigned comments after final grades are submitted. Written student comments may also be used in support of a nomination for internal and external teaching awards.

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