Research Training in Medical Physics

描述(由申请人提供)： 芝加哥大学的医学物理学研究生课程提供三个层次的研究培训，分别是科学硕士学位、哲学博士学位和博士后培训。正在攻读医学物理学研究生学位的学生应该已经完成了相当于芝加哥大学物理系S.B.学位所需的培训。博士后培训生是从拥有物理学博士学位或同等专业的候选人中挑选出来的。项目教师的主要研究领域包括：诊断放射学物理学、核医学物理学、磁共振成像/光谱学物理学和放射治疗物理学。主要的研究机构是弗兰克图像分析中心、库尔特·罗斯曼放射图像研究实验室、戈德布拉特核磁共振中心、核磁共振实验室、放射科的科学可视化和图像分析核心设施，以及放射和细胞肿瘤部的医学物理部。该项目的独特之处在于，该学院致力于医学成像和放射肿瘤学的研究，并致力于培养高水平的医学物理学家。学生和实习生被要求参加课程作业，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完成研究项目。研究项目可以是数字放射成像、诊断性能、计算机辅助诊断、磁共振成像和光谱学、图像重建、核医学成像、正电子发射断层成像、计算机在放射治疗中的应用、剂量计算和验证、多模式图像相关或剂量学方面的理论或实验研究。除了医学物理核心课程外，所有受训人员都会修读一门关于负责任的研究行为的伦理课程，并担任助教。目前该项目的教职员工人数为22人。目前在读博士后人数为18人，目前有两名NIH博士后实习生。申请资助的受训人数为每年4名博士前(每年2名第一年和2名第二年受训人员)，每年2名博士后。应该指出的是，这是一份竞争性续签申请，是在NCI发起并最近转移到NIBIB的医学物理培训补助金的第14年编写的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Graduate Programs in Medical Physics at the University of Chicago offers research training at three levels that lead to the Master of Science degree, to the Doctor of Philosophy degree, and 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 the University of Chicago. 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: Physics of Diagnostic Radiology, Physics of Nuclear Medicine, Physics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Spectroscopy, and Physics of Radiation Therapy. Major research facilities are the Frank Center for Image Analysis, the Kurt Rossmann Laboratories for Radiology Image Research, the Goldblatt MRI Center, the NMR labs, and the Scientific Visualization & Image Analysis Core Facility in the Department of Radiology, and the Medical Physics Division in the Department of Radiation & Cellular Oncology. 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. Students and trainees are required to take course work, participate in seminars and journal club meetings, assist in research projects, and complete a research project 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, image reconstruction, nuclear medicine imaging, positron emission tomography, computer applications in radiation therapy, dose computation and verification, multi-modality image correlation, or dosimetry. Beyond the medical physics core courses, all trainees take an ethics course on the responsible conduct of research and serve as teaching assistants. The number of current program faculty is 22. The number of current predoctoral students is 18. There are two NIH postdoctoral trainees in the program at the present. The number of trainees for which funding is requested is four per year at the predoctoral level (2 first-year and 2 second-year trainees per year), and 2 per year postdoctoral level. It should be noted that this is a competitive renewal application, written in the 14th year of a medical physics training grant that initiated in NCI and was transferred recently to NIBIB.