Medical Physics
Jay Burmeister, Ph.D., DABR
Chief of Physics, Karmanos Cancer Center
Director of Education
Dept. of Radiation Oncology
WSU School of Medicine
Gershenson Radiation Oncology Center
4100 John R
Detroit, MI 48201
Phone: (313) 745-9175
Fax: (313) 966-9400
The Medical Physics division consists of nine medical physicists and two medical physics residents providing research, education, and clinical service to the Department of Radiation Oncology. The Medical Physics division is also home to more than 35 graduate research students within the medical physics graduate education program. The medical physics group is responsible for oversight, quality assurance, and research and development of the technical aspects of radiation oncology.
The overall mission of the division is to find novel, safer, and more accurate methods for the use of radiation for the treatment of disease. The physics group provides complete physics support to the department, including the provision of physics teaching to medical residents, medical physics residents, medical physics students, and radiation therapists, as well as technical and radiation safety training for all department personnel.
The Medical Physics division is currently focusing on the following research:
- Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT)
- Image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT)
- Tomotherapy
- Radiotherapy plan complexity reduction and delivery quality assurance
- Biological optimization of radiotherapy treatment plans
- Novel radiotherapy delivery techniques
- Novel radiation detection techniques
- High Linear Energy Transfer (LET), high Relative Biological Effectiveness (RBE) radiotherapy techniques