Medical Physics in the future

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 Our main character is travelling in time
into the future and enters into an hospital.
 Joey meets his former teachers and
colleagues there, which are working on
High-energy nuclear medical applications,
 Joey gets very excited with it and asks for

information about the techniques and

about the technologies besides them.
 From a small dialogue with his former

colleagues, he realizes that continuous

training is a crucial and very fun part of
the development and research.
 Techniques:

◦ Simple definitions, illustrating

images and schemes
 Introducing:
 Computing
 Radioactivity, Nuclear decay
 Radiation, Gamma, X-ray
 Antimatter
 Hadrons, Ions
 Bragg peak
Technological transfers from CERN
to Medical Applications
 Accelerator technologies
 Scintillation crystals and Photo Detectors
 Electronics and Software
 Continuous development and
research
• Training programs and courses
• New challenges, international collaboration