Makan Farrokhkish
Victoria Gu
Alborz Gorjizadeh
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Diagnostic Imaging
 Imaging or treatment planning: clinical/medical
applications
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Radiation Therapy
 Treatment planning
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Health Physics
 Radiation monitoring
 Radiation protection
 Radiation dosimetry
How do we make radiation useful?
Clinical
CT = multi-projection XRAY IMAGES
IMAGE INDICATIVE OF LUNG CANCER
Research
X-rays used to characterize elemental quantity in
cancerous and normal cells: Fe, Zn, Ca
 X-ray production – via particle accelerator
 Results have diagnostic potential
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Detection of radioactive nuclides injected into body
Provide functional information of the organ
Glucose uptake
visualization
Tachnetium-99m :
140keV gamma rays
Clinical
At McMaster:
-Development of breast- and cardiac- dedicated PET cameras
-Development of simultaneous PET/MRI scanners for preclinical
and clinical application
Clinical
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Does this involve radiation?
What are we imaging?
H1, P31
Research: neuroanatomy of the brain
Clinical
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Radiation treatment planning
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Radiation monitoring
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- Measuring radiation dose and contamination for assessment and
control of exposure to radiation
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Radiation protection
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-Protection of people and environment from harmful effects of radiation
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Radiation dosimetry
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- Measurement and calculation of absorbed dose
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Apply and complete level 1 science program;
 Requires at least 77-80% in high school courses
 Six Grade 12 U/M courses including:
 ENG4U, MCV4U, MHF4U, SCH4U, SPH4U
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Physical Science or Life Science.
 Maintain 6.0 Average
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Join the Medical Physics Program
Continue the program in either Co-Op (5
year) or as normal enrollment
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Level 1
 Physical or Life Science with a focus in math and physics
 New Medical Physics Course ‘Physics in Medicine and
Biology I’
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Level 2
 Entrance in Medical Physics, Continued focus in Math in
Physics
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Level 3
 Math and Physics but an more medical physics courses.
Some basic programming (matlab) courses
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Level 4
 Most courses are medical physics. For a complete list of
courses see
http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/medphys/courses.html
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Term 1
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Math 1A03 – First Semester of Calculus
Chem 1A03 – Introductory Concepts of Chemistry
Physics 1B03 – Basic Physics Kinematics Etc.
Math 1B03 – Linear Algebra
Term 2
 Math 1AA3 – Second semester calculus, focus on
integration
 Bio 1A03 – Cellular and Molecular Biology
 Med Phys 1E03 – Physics in Medicine & Biology I
 Physics 1BA3 or 1BB3 – Mechanics, properties of sound
harmonic motion etc.
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Term 1
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Math 2A03 – Calculus III.
Kin 1Y03 – Anatomy I
Med Phys 2B03 – Electricity and Magnetism
Physics 2C03 – Modern Physics, Special Relativity &
Quantum
Term 2
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Math 2C03 – Differential Equations
Kin 1YY3 – Anatomy II
Med Phys 2C03 – Electronics for Medicine and Biology
Physics 2E03 – Classical Mechanics
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Term 1
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Math 3C03 – Mathematical Physics I
Med Phys 4T03 – Clinical Applications of Physics in Medicine
Med Phys 4B03 – Radioactivity & Radiation Interactions
Med Phys 3A03 – Communications
Term 2
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Physics 3MM3 – Quantum Mechanics I
Bio 2B03 - Genetics
Math 3D03 – Mathematical Physics II
Med Phys 3R03 – Computational Medical Physics, Numerical
Methods
 Physics 3H03 – Intermediate Physics Labs
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Term 1
 Med Phys 4D03 – Imaging in Medicine and Biology
 Med Phys 4I03 – Introduction to Biophotonics
 Med Phys 4R06 – Radiation & Radioisotope
Methodology
 Med Phys 4Y06 – Senior Thesis
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Term 2
 Med Phys 4U03 – Radiation Biology
 Med Phys 4L03 – Human Clinical Anatomy and
Physiology
For questions:
Email Undergraduate Coordinator
Dr. Nicholas Bock: bockn@mcmaster.ca
Email Alborz Gorjizadeh: gorjiza@mcmaster.ca
Email Victoria Gu: guvl@mcmaster.ca
Email Makan Farrokhkish: farrom@mcmaster.ca