Sentence examples for radiotherapy physics from inspiring English sources

This article was amended on 27 August 2015 to make clear that Prof van Herk's position as chair of radiotherapy physics at the Christie is jointly funded by the University of Manchester.

The world expert on targeted cancer treatment, Marcel van Herk, has left the prestigious Netherlands Cancer Institute after 32 years to take up the chair of radiotherapy physics based at the Christie, but jointly funded with the University of Manchester.

Concentrating on the underlying principles of radiation physics, it covers the prerequisite knowledge for medical physics courses on the graduate and post-graduate levels in radiotherapy physics, radiation dosimetry, imaging physics, and health physics, thus providing the link between elementary physics on the one hand and the intricacies of the medical physics specialties on the other hand.

The registry was set up by Dr EM Bessell and AJ Moloney (now Head of Radiotherapy Physics, Clinical Director, Department of Clinical Oncology, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) in 1986, and data was entered prospectively from this date.

As a handbook, as opposed to a textbook, it contains a large number of useful data tables and basic formulae, but in places it does not go deep enough into the issues that are of current concern in the radiotherapy physics community.

Improvements in the therapeutic ratio of radiotherapy have been driven by developments in both radiation biology and radiation physics which have translated into significant advances in targeted dose delivery, radiological imaging and biological effectiveness.

The scope of the journal includes: clinical research into any form of radiotherapy including but not limited to external beam irradiation, brachytherapy, particle radiation therapy, intraoperative radiation therapy and stereotactic radiosurgery/radiotherapy, as well as experimental work in radiobiology, tumor biology, radiation physics, dosimetry, and radiation treatment planning.

The MOSkin, a new MOSFET-based detector designed by the Centre for Radiation Physics, was engineered to provide accurate measurements of skin doses in radiotherapy and personal monitoring.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, together with the World Health Organization, is playing its part by helping to make radiotherapy, medical physics, nuclear medicine and imaging services available to fight cancer in developing countries.

It was decided to develop a curriculum that was consistent in structure and format with the revised radiotherapy medical physics curriculum.

The curriculum for medical physics in radiotherapy was developed and revised jointly by EFOMP and the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO).