Technology Equipment
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The MPU staff and graduate students have access to all types of modern high technology equipment used in the diagnosis and treatment of disease with radiation. The equipment is installed in McGill teaching hospitals and is primarily used for clinical work; however, staff and students have access to the equipment for laboratory and research work.
The major radiology and radiotherapy equipment at McGill is calibrated, maintained, and serviced by the physicists and engineers of the Medical Physics department of the Montreal General Hospital. This facilitates the access to equipment by the MPU staff and students and gives the graduate students an excellent exposure to daily work and responsibilities of clinical medical physicists and engineers.
The major medical equipment of interest to medical physicists in McGill teaching hospitals is as follows: regular x-ray equipment for diagnostic radiology (some 100 x-ray rooms); 6 CT-scanners; 4 DSA units; 2 low energy linear accelerators for x-ray radiotherapy; 5 high energy linear accelerators for x-ray and electron radiotherapy (4 equipped with multileaf collimators); 1 cobalt unit for total body irradiation; 2 simulators; 2 CT-simulators; 1 remote afterloading unit; 2 PET scanners; a cyclotron for production of radionuclides; and 4 SPECT cameras. In addition, there are 3 MRI scanners; 10 treatment planning computers for 3-D treatment planning; treatment planning systems for intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), brachytherapy and stereotactic radiosurgery; an assortment of calibration equipment, such as 3-D isodose plotters, ionization chambers, thermoluminescent dosimetry readers, film densitometers, diode arrays, etc.; and a wide variety of computer systems available for research and development work.
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The Medical Physics department of the MUHC also has an electronics shop and a machine shop staffed with electronic engineers, technicians, and a skilled machinist who are available to help the MPU staff and students with building their equipment for various clinical as well as M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis-related research projects.