Duration: Initial two weeks in clinical training - Lawrence Rothenberg
Section Heads: Lawrence Rothenberg
Participating Faculty: John Humm
Health Physics/Radiation Safety
Duration: 3 months
Training: Evaluation of doses, workload determination, and radiation safety features of equipment and treatment room, broad beam transmission measurements, personnel monitoring report interpretation, interpretation of regulations, measurements on patients treated with radiopharmaceuticals.
Section Head: Lawrence Dauer, PhD
Particpating Faculty/Staff: N. Abrahams, J. Altamirano, M. Bellamy, D. Bierman, F. Chen, B. Chu, M. Fahim, D. Miodownik, B. Quinn, G. Roemer, B. Serencsits, M. Williamson
Diagnostic X-Ray Quality Assurance Laboratory
Duration: 12 months
Training: For each rotation, or subsection thereof, in which calibration, QC, or acceptance tests are performed on imaging units, the resident’s competency will be evaluated by the faculty adviser on the following: Ability to determine proper operation of unit(s) evaluated by performing calculations of required quantities. Assessment of unit safety-Correct reporting on findings to service.
Section Head: Yusuf Erdi, ScD
Participating Faculty/Staff: H. Ching, Y. Gao, D. Long, U. Mahmood, D. Lynch, K. Stiles, A. Ruuge, W. Tang
Imaging Informatics
Duration: 1 month
Training: The rotation will include supervised QC surveys of 5 or more PACS interpretation stations. After completing the rotation, the resident will conduct testing on a PACS unit without supervision and prepare an action report. The mentor will verify the findings and evaluate the resident’s performance.
Section Heads: Aditya Apte and staff
Participating Faculty/Staff: D. LaFontaine, B. Beattie,V. Miloushev, MD, U. Mahmood, A, Apte, A. Dave, H. Veeraraghavan, A. Li
Nuclear Medicine
Duration: 3 months
Training: This is a 3 month rotation divided in to 3 one monthly segments.
Radiation Detectors – Non Imaging Equipment
Imaging Systems
Clinical Nuclear Medicine Protocols
Section Head: John Humm, PhD and staff
Participating Faculty/Staff: B. Beattie, F. Augensen, M. Grkovski, A. Kesner, A. Kirov, J. O’Donoghue, R. Schmidtlein, P. Zanzonico
Magnetic Resonance
Duration: 3 months
Training: The rotation will consist of two components. During the course of the rotation, the resident will participate in both a research project analyzing quantitative clinical MR data and also in the Quality Assurance Program that the American College of Radiology mandates for all MRI units for accreditation.
Section Heads: Ricardo Otazo, PhD and staff
Participating Faculty/Staff: Y. Mazaheri, C. Wu
Oncologic Imaging
Duration: 1 month
Training: Residents gain experience with imaging units used in Radiation Oncology simulation and treatments.
Section Head: Gary Lim, William Donahue, and staff
Participating Faculty/Staff: S. Lim, K. Episcopia
Small Animal Imaging
Duration: 1 month
Training: The Resident will observe and participate in quality control and calibration procedures on all small animal imaging modalities. The Resident will also participate in actual imaging and therapeutic irradiation procedures on experimental animals (i.e. tumor-bearing mice and rats).