Training Facilities
Although several hospitals in the region provide access to our students for clinical internships, the majority of radiation oncology physics training takes place within the Karmanos Cancer Center (KCC) facilities. A total of nearly 2,000 new patients are treated annually at these facilities. Radiation oncology staff within the KCC includes nine medical physicists, two medical physics residents, eight dosimetrists, a mould room tech, and two electronics engineers.
Within the KCC hospitals, all conventional x-ray, nuclear medicine, MR and ultrasound equipment is available for clinical instruction and research. Additionally, all the experimental facitilies of the Radiation Biology Group, part of the Radiation Oncology Center, are available for research applications. These include comprehensive equipped laboratories for cell biology, molecular biology, microscopy and flow cytometry.
Major equipment includes:
- 5 linear accelerators (4-15 MV, with electrons, MLC, electronic portal imaging)
- 1 Tomotherapy unit
- 1 Gamma Knife (stereotactic radiosurgery)
- 1 co-60 unit dedicated for TBI
- 3 simulators
- 2 CT simulators (4DCT capabilities)
- 2 HDR units
- 2 SonArray ultrasound localization units
- 5 different radiotherapy treatment planning systems with over 20 workstations (5 dedicated to student research)
- 3 different inverse treatment planning systems
- 1 superconducting cyclotron for neutron therapy and assorted calibration and microdosimetry equipment (chambers, MCA, etc.)
- 1 Pantak 320kVp wide-field X-ray unit in walk-in shielded room, dose rates up to 2 Gy/min
- 1 MDS Nordion Gammabeam X200 cobalt gamma unit, source intensity 750Ci
- 2 computerized water phantoms with film scanning densitometry
- 3 TLD readout instruments, annealing ovens, etc.
- 2 scanning densitometry systems
- 3 manual densitometers
- 1 MOSFET dosimetry system
- 5 dual diode systems
- 6 ion chamber calibration systems (electrometers, thimble and pancake chambers, etc.)
Diagnostic Facilities:
- 2 dedicated MRS units (1.5T and 4.7T)
- 1 SPECT unit
- 1 PET unit, cyclotron, etc.
- 1 PET/CT unit
- 2 fully equipped flow cytometry facilities
- 3 MRI units (1T and 1.5T)
- 1 diagnostic imaging lab (at Henry Ford Hospital for RAD 7050 lab course)
- 1 fully equipped laser research facility
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