• Question: What is your favorite part of medical physics?

    Asked by Em123 to Christopher, Dan, Jen, Mohan, Sarah on 13 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Daniel Fovargue

      Daniel Fovargue answered on 13 Mar 2017:

      My background is more in maths and computer science. So, for me, my favourite part is getting to do science using data from real patients and working on real diseases. Its very humbling to use images of real people’s tumours to try to design new scientific methods for understanding cancer.

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      Jen Dennis answered on 13 Mar 2017:

      Definitely nuclear medicine. I chose to specialise in it at the end of my training because it gives me a very direct part in benefitting the patients. All of medical physics benefits patients but some of it is less directly visible and that doesn’t interest me so much.

      Plus, I get to say that I make people radioactive for a living and that’s pretty cool 😉.

    • Photo: Sarah De Vos

      Sarah De Vos answered on 14 Mar 2017:

      I like working with the machines. And I love pushing buttons, no joke.

    • Photo: Mohan K

      Mohan K answered on 14 Mar 2017:

      Medical Physics covers different specialism areas. I had the choice of working in any of the fields of medical physics and i chose nuclear medicine.

      I chose this field because of the sheer variety of work. Whilst the level of physics wasn’t very high (its not cutting edge physics here!) it has the highest level of patient interaction and a lot of clinical knowledge is required. The clinical knowledge means all the anatomy and physiology and pharmacy stuff i need to know be an expert in this field. Having only qualified last september, I still feel that there’s a huge amount more to learn! This means it’ll never get too boring and I’ll always have more opportunities for self-development.

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      Christopher Mirfin answered on 16 Mar 2017:

      I’m interested in magnetic resonance imaging – because it can give highly detailed images of the human body – and also functional imaging (e.g. brain activation). I’m interested in human intelligence and neuroscience – it’s incredibly interesting 🙂

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