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  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
  Abstract: 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: *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/.