| 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/. |