Graduate Program in Medical Physics

The Medical Physics Graduate Program at Duke University offers both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, and is an interdisciplinary program sponsored by five departments: Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Physics, Biomedical Engineering, and Occupational and Environmental Safety (health physics). We offer four academic tracks: diagnostic imaging physics, radiation oncology physics, nuclear medicine physics, and health physics. We have a large faculty involved in medical physics research and clinical service, with a number of colleagues who are internationally recognized experts in their fields of scholarship. Areas of faculty expertise include magnetic resonance angiography, magnetic resonance microscopy, advanced digital imaging algorithms, detector and display characterization, computer-aided diagnosis, ultrasound, monoclonal antibody imaging and therapy, hyperthermia coupled with radiation therapy, SPECT and PET imaging, neutron-stimulated imaging, and dosimetry.

 

Duke faculty have had many years of experience mentoring outstanding Ph.D. students in the Departments of Radiology, Physics, and Biomedical Engineering. In 2005, these departments joined with the Departments of Radiation Oncology and Occupational and Environmental Safety to offer a graduate program specifically designed to train medical physicists. 

 

Details about the Medical Physics Graduate Program at Duke University are available at http://medicalphysics.duke.edu