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Medical physics

Medical physics concerns the application of physics to medicine. It is generally concerns physics as applied to medical imaging and radiation therapy.

For example, nuclear magnetic resonance (now with the new title magnetic resonance imaging to avoid the common public conception that the method involved ionising radiation), uses the phenomenon of nuclear resonance to image the human body.

Other medical physics applications:

• Ultrasound
• Radiation protection
• Nuclear medicine
• Radiotherapy
• Diagnostic radiology
• Non-ionising radiation (Lasers, Ultraviolet etc.)
• Physiological measurement

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