Research Training in Medical Physics

医学物理研究培训

• 批准号: 8088073
• 负责人: Maryellen L. Giger
• 金额: $ 26.47万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-06-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8088073
• 关键词: Medical; Physics; Research Training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Graduate Programs in Medical Physics at the University of Chicago offers research training that leads to the Doctor of Philosophy degree as well as postdoctoral training. Students working toward a graduate degree in medical physics are expected to have completed training equivalent to that required for the S.B. degree in the Department of Physics at this University. Postdoctoral trainees are selected from candidates with the Ph.D. degree in Physics or equivalent fields. Primary areas of research interests by the program faculty include four components: Physics of Diagnostic Radiology, Physics of Nuclear Medicine, Physics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Spectroscopy, and Physics of Radiation Therapy. Unique features of this program are the faculty's focused effort on research in medical imaging and radiation oncology, and on the training of high-level medical physicists. Trainees are required to take course work, participate in seminars and journal club meetings, assist in research projects, and complete research under supervision of a faculty member. Research projects may be theoretical or experimental studies in digital radiography, diagnostic performance, computer-aided diagnosis, magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, nuclear medicine imaging, positron emission tomography, computer applications in radiation therapy, dose computation and verification, multi-modality image correlation, or dosimetry. All trainees take a cancer and radiation biology courses, participate in programs related to responsible conduct of research, and serve as teaching assistants. The number of current program faculty is 22. The number of current trainees includes 30 pre-doctoral students and six post-doctoral trainees. The number of trainees for which funding is requested is eight per year at the pre-doctoral level (4 first-year and 4 second-year trainees per year), and 2 per year postdoctoral level. It should be noted that this is a competitive renewal application, written at the end of the 19th year of the medical physics training grant that initiated in NCI and transferred to NIBIB, which has funded the program since 2003 including the last successful NIBIB competitive renewal review and 5-year funding period of Yrs 16-20. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The increasing use of biomedical imaging, image-guided interventions, and radiation therapies in medicine and the increasing interest in medical research serve to increase the demand for medical physicists. Thus, there is a clear need for training of medical physicists. This is the rationale for our proposed research training program.

描述（由申请人提供）：芝加哥大学医学物理学研究生课程提供研究培训，可导致哲学博士学位以及博士后培训。预计攻读医学物理学的研究生学位的学生预计将完成与S.B.所需的培训相同的培训。该大学物理系学位。博士后学员是从博士学位的候选人中选出的。物理学或等效领域的学位。该计划教师的主要研究兴趣领域包括四个组成部分：诊断放射学的物理学，核医学物理学，磁共振成像/光谱的物理学以及放射治疗的物理学。该计划的独特特征是教师在医学成像和辐射肿瘤学方面的研究以及对高级医学物理学家的培训。学员必须参加课程工作，参加研讨会和期刊俱乐部会议，协助研究项目，并在教职员工的监督下进行完整的研究。研究项目可能是数字射线照相，诊断性能，计算机辅助诊断，磁共振成像和光谱的理论或实验研究，核医学成像，正电子发射断层扫描，放射治疗中的计算机应用，剂量计算和验证，多模式性图像相关性或介入性。所有学员参加了癌症和放射生物学课程，参与与负责任的研究有关的计划，并作为助教。目前的课程教师的数量为22。当前的学员的数量包括30名博士后学生和6名博士后学员。要求提供资金的学员每年为八名，在博士前级别（每年为4个第一年和4个第二年学员），每年2年的学会后水平为2个。应当指出，这是一项具有竞争性续签应用程序，该应用程序在NCI启动的医学物理培训赠款的第19年末撰写，并转移给了Nibib，该资助自2003年以来一直为该计划提供资金，其中包括上次成功的Nibib竞争性更新审查和16-20 YRS 16-20 YRS的5年资金。 公共卫生相关性：生物医学成像，图像引导的干预措施和医学的放射疗法的使用日益增加，对医学研究的兴趣日益增加，这有助于增加对医学物理学家的需求。因此，显然需要培训医学物理学家。这是我们提出的研究培训计划的理由。