04/26/2010

MIMA’s Ting Teaches Quality Assurance In China

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BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Dr. Joseph Ting (pictured above wearing necktie), Chief Physicist at the MIMA Cancer Center, traveled to China to teach a series of Linear Accelerator quality assurance classes to multiple groups of Chinese Medical Physicists.  His third trip to China, Dr. Ting is one of two American physicists chosen as faculty members for these quarterly classes.

Cancer has already overtaken heart disease as the number one killer in the U.S., and  China is rapidly seeing a rise in cancer incidence but access to modern radiation oncology facilities remains limited.

The delivery of therapeutic doses of radiation uses complex devices called Linear Accelerators (or Linacs) that require rigorous quality assurance to verify that the machines are calibrated accurately.

The primary role of a Medical Physicist is to work with clinicians to develop safe and effective delivery of radiation treatments to cancer patients.

This effort will enhance the safe delivery of radiation treatments in China but, more importantly, it will provide a forum for exchanging ideas about patient safety and accurate delivery of radiation treatments.

Read more at Medicine.com

Apr 26, 2010 12:03:33 AM | Current Affairs, Medicine

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