MPHY 712 – Ethics and Professionalism in Medical Physics (2). The guidelines of this new Code of Ethics have four major sections: professional conduct, research ethics, education ethics, and business ethics. This course will be presented based as a didactic course in a classroom setting as well as a series of seminars where they are better suited for certain topics. The time spent on each topic depends on the case studies presented. The course is an interactive class and will explore scenarios directly applicable to clinical situations a Medical Physicist would encounter during normal practice.
MPHY 741/742 – Journal Club (1). Required for all graduate students in the Medical Physics program. This journal club covers publications of interest in the fields of Medical Physics, Health Physics, Nuclear Medicine, Medical Imaging, and Radiation Biology. Meetings will be held monthly and will feature presentations by faculty and students on a publication of interest to the group. Students are expected to review the selected publication in advance of each presentation and to participate in discussion of the presented manuscript.
MPHY 751/752 – Seminar Course (1). Required for all graduate students in the medical physics program. Practicing professionals and faculty in the field present overviews of selected topics in medical physics.
MPHY 760 – Image-Based Clinical Anatomy (3). This course will focus on major organ systems and disease areas. Anatomic structures will be presented from a radiologic or imaging (including cross-sectional) viewpoint in addition to a standard anatomy and physiology presentation. The fundamentals of various imaging modalities (X-ray Mammography and Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance, Positron Emission Tomography, Ultrasound) and their relevance to treatment planning will be addressed. Organs at risk and dose tolerance to normal structures will be discussed. Image Registration and Fusion will also be covered, as will motion management. Required for all graduate students in the medical physics program.
MPHY 761 – Radiation Therapy Planning Techniques (3). Students will learn practical and theoretical aspects of historical and modern radiation therapy planning techniques. The course covers algorithms used for photon, electron, and proton beam therapy dose calculations; radiobiological principles of normal tissue tolerance; patient and organ movement, positioning, and immobilization; treatment planning system commissioning and quality assurance; and treatment plan creation and evaluation for a range of anatomic sites and techniques including image guidance, intensity modulation, stereotaxy, and brachytherapy.
MPHY 762 – Practical Measurements in Clinical Physics (3). This course prepares students for the investigation of physical phenomena and offers models through which they can get acquainted with physics-based phenomena and methods in clinical practice. Students receive individual measurement tasks to introduce them to experimental work and the fundamental methods of data processing.
MPHY 771 – Radiological Physics (3). This course covers the nature and fundamental concepts of ionizing radiation including ionizing radiation, radiation quantities, attenuation and stopping power, charged particle and radiation equilibria, radioactive decay, photon interactions, charged and uncharged particle interactions, x-ray production and quality, dosimetry concepts, ionization cavity theory, and calibration of ionizing radiation beams. This course is cross listed as BMES 771 and PHY 771. P— POI.
MPHY 773 – Radiation Therapy Physics (3). This course covers the physics of radiation treatment including radiation producing equipment, character of photon and electron radiation beams, radiation dose functions, computerized radiation treatment planning, brachytherapy, special radiation treatment procedures, quality assurance, and radiation shielding for high energy facilities. Required for all graduate students in the medical physics program. This course is cross listed as BMES 773 and PHY 773.
MPHY 774 – Ionizing Medical Imaging (2). This course covers the physical principles, mathematical algorithms and devices used in diagnostic medical imaging, including the following imaging modalities: x-ray physics, x-ray digital imaging, digital image receptors, computerized tomography and reconstruction algorithms, ultrasound imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, and nuclear medicine imaging. This course is cross listed as BMES 774 and PHY 774.
MPHY 776 – Medical Health Physics (3). Physical and biological aspects for the use of ionizing radiation in medical environments, biological consequences of human radiation exposure, principles of ionizing radiation protection, operational dosimetry, radiation exposure recommendations and regulations, physical principles of radiation shielding design, personnel monitoring, medical health physics instrumentation, and waste disposal. This course is cross listed with BMES 776 and PHY 776.
MPHY 778 – Radiation Biophysics (3). This course provides students with an overview of the biology of cancer and of the current methods used to diagnose and treat the disease. Lectures from faculty throughout the Biological Sciences Division will include presentations on cancer incidence and mortality, cancer prevention, a molecular biology perspective, the role of genetic markers, methods of treatment (radiation, chemotherapy) and prognosis. The course will be primarily for medical physics graduate students. This course is cross listed as BMES 778 and PHY 778.
MPHY 779 – Non-Ionizing Medical Imaging (2). This course covers the physical principles, mathematical algorithms and devices used in diagnostic medical imaging which uses ionizing radiation, including the following imaging modalities: x-ray physics, x-ray digital imaging, digital image receptors, computerized tomography and reconstruction algorithms, and nuclear medicine imaging.
MPHY 782 – Clinical Rotations (1-9). On-site clinical training in the principles of computed tomography (CT) simulator, associated radiation protection/design considerations, CT protocols. Understand the physics of imaging modalities, image guided radiotherapy, image archiving and communication systems, and perform quality assurance on CT, MRI, ultrasound and PET as related to radiation therapy. On board imaging procedures are also covered.
