Medical physics is a fascinating scientific discipline, providing many professional opportunities to apply physics to the care of patients, either in the clinic or in industry. It is also an area allowing for exciting, interesting and fulfilling areas of research. It is the aim of this course to give bachelor physics students an insight into the wide spectrum of medical applications of physics.

Physics and medical physics aspects of particle physicsSubjects: Physics interactions and beam characteristics; medical accelerators; beam delivery; pencil beam scanning; dosimetry and QA; treatment planning; precision and uncertainties; in-vivo dose verification; proton therapy biology.