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Introduction to Medical Physics

M Silari · CERN

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The lecture will first briefly review physical discoveries and tools developed for physics which later found applications in medicine, and then it will illustrate the most relevant of these applications: magnetic resonance imaging, computerized tomography, single photon emission computerized tomography, positron emission tomography, and conventional and advanced radiation therapy.

Prerequisite knowledge: none.

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The talk

  1. Introduction to Medical Physics 2008-08-01 · 51 min · CERN's player

Credits and licence

Institution
CERN
Department
Summer Student Lecture Programme Seminar,2008
Speaker
M Silari
Year
2008
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Medicine and health
Source
CERN
Licence
CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
Attribution
© CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
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