Congratulations to Catherine Olguin, PhD Candidate, whose abstract titled “Comparison of CT image quality between AIDR 3D and FIRST iterative reconstruction algorithms: an assessment based on clinical images”, has been accepted by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) for their Early-Career Investigator Symposium competition at the 2021 Spring…
The next UF Society of Health and Medical Physics (SHMPS) General Body Meeting is scheduled at 11AM on Monday, February 15 via Zoom. Contact SHMPS President Bonnie President for more info.
Please consider helping the UF Society of Health and Medical Physics (SHMPS) reach their fundraising goal of $1,000 for Relay for Life. Relay for life is a community-based fundraising event for the American Cancer Society and other cancer related societies, institutions, and associations. These organizations help improve cancer survival…
Under the leadership of Dr Manuel Arreola, the Division of Medical Physics is excited to announce the launch of its Professional PhD Track as part of our graduate program offerings. This new track, which is in addition to our standard full-time PhD offering, is for board-certified practicing physicists holding a…
UF Medical Physics Research Highlight – Dr Pingfang Tsai, UF Medical Physics Graduate Program Alumnus: Tumor phase recognition using cone-beam computed tomography projections and external surrogate information (under the guidance…
UF Medical Physics Research Highlight – Dr Nick Potter, UF Medical Physics Graduate Program Alumnus: Error detection and classification in patient-specific IMRT QA with dual neural networks (under the guidance of…
Congratulations to UF Medical Physics Graduate Program Faculty Dr Bo Lu (Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology) and his colleague Dr Hongcheng Liu (Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering), who were awarded funding ($350,000) by the National Science Foundation to support their research in the area of health system engineering. Their proposal…
Please find below the updated Spring 2021 Course Schedule for Medical Physics: ENU 6636 – Medical Radiation Shielding/Protection (Drs Arreola & Leon): 9:30AM-10:20AM M/W/F C2-33ENU 6652 – Diagnostic Physics II (Drs Arreola/Rill/Leon): 9:30AM – 10:45AM T/T C2-33ENU 6659 – Nuclear Medicine (Dr Gilland): 11:15AM – 12:30PM T/T C2-33BME 6591…
The UF Medical Physics Graduate Program is now accepting MS and PhD applications for Fall 2021! Our application deadline is December 15, 2020. Please access our Graduate Program Applicant page for more information on admissions, requirements, and applications. *Note that after careful review and consideration, we have waived the…
Please join us in welcoming Dr Perry Johnson to our graduate program’s faculty. Dr Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Florida in Jacksonville. He is also a graduate of the program (PhD 2011). Subsequent to obtaining his PhD from UF, Dr…
