Session: |
Medical Imaging and Medical Procedures Used as Tools for Teaching
Modern Physics* |
Meeting: |
121st AAPT National Meeting:
Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
Location: |
MacNaughton, Room 105 |
Date: |
7/31/00 |
Time: |
2:45 p.m. |
Author: |
Donna Poole, Kansas State
Univ.
785-532-1612,
dpoole@phys.ksu.edu |
Co-Author(s): |
Kirsten Hogg, Dean Zollman
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Abstract:
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Increasingly, modern physics
technology is used in medicine to diagnose and treat a variety of
illnesses. A course that aims to make ideas of modern physics more
accessible to students planning to attend medical school could
potentially be of great value. We are designing an activity-based course
that will be offered to biology and pre-med students. It uses positron
emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging, laser surgery,
and other medical procedures as a focus for learning about modern
physics. This talk gives an outline of one module that uses PET to
prompt discussion of atomic structure, electromagnetic radiation and
radioactive decay.1 |
Footnotes:
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*Supported by a grant from
the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. +Sponsored by Dean Zollman. 1.
Additional information is available at www.phys.ksu.edu/perg/.
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