The Medical Physics group provides physics support for clinical radiation oncology procedures. They also develop, test, and implement new technologies in radiation therapy that come from conducting basic medical physics research.
Medical physicists provide clinical physics services to UW Medical Center's Cancer Center, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, and to the Gamma Knife at Harborview Medical Center. The procedures for which they provide services include external beam therapy with X-rays, electrons and neutrons, brachytherapy including HDR and prostate seed implants, radiosurgery, stereotactic radiotherapy using stereocameras, IMRT, total body irradiations, total skin electron irradiation, eye plaques, and intravascular brachytherapy.
Research
Research is carried out in a number of different areas including the application of advanced computing concepts to programming projects in radiation therapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy, cone-beam imaging, prostate seed position reconstruction, stereotactic radiosurgery, and the application of neutrons to radiation therapy.