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Whatever you do, don't Google "prostate brachytherapy" ;)

Don't quote me on this because I only covered the topic briefly in some applied classes before doing 6 years of research, but if I remember correctly, you grab it with long tweezer…

It's much more primitive than you think. Dose distributions are simulated based on a CT/MRI that was acquired before treatment (treatment often lasts weeks). Only minor corrections…

Just defended my PhD thesis in medical physics. Worked on radiation therapy treatment planning, which combines optimisation theory with the physics of Monte Carlo particle transpor…

I want to echo point #2 about listening rather than talking. When I first pitched my work to radiation therapy vendors at big conferences, I was expecting a kind of adversarial exc…

-Working for a big tech company: you're writing code to deliver more ads to more people so the company can grow and deliver even more ads to even more people -Being a truck driver:…

I wish MUDs were featured more prominently in online gaming history. They basically defined my childhood, and I learned how to code by writing vendor bots on a MUD. Dealing with ed…

In general, the field is split into imaging research (MRI, CT, Ultrasound, optical imaging) and radiotherapy research. It's a very applied field, the fundamental physics has been f…

Medical Physics 4th year PhD student Workday: - [Variable] Wake up, shower, make coffee, read news. - [10-11 AM] Take the subway to work (15 minutes) - [11 AM to 5-6 PM] Work on Mo…

People who go straight from undergrad to PhD often take 5+ years (in the states and Canada, at least), especially in the experimental fields

There's a cool dystopian-ey youtube video briefly looking into that topic, among other things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs

worked for me

I've had a similar experience. I'm in a hybrid field (medical physics) where half of the people are from pure physics and the other half from a more biomedical engineering backgrou…

If you're writing papers in LaTeX, then https://www.overleaf.com should be good for you. Almost all of our department has started using it.

He published a single author paper even though he acknowledges in the end "I thank Matthew Fiedler, PhD, and Jeanne Lambrew, PhD, who assisted with planning, writing, and data anal…

I'm not super familiar with computer graphics, so you'll have to let me know if my description fits what you guys do ;) I found a youtube video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms…

This is actually what we do in radiotherapy nowadays, it's even called "inverse treatment planning". Basically a radio-oncologist or a dosimetrist contours (manually, with a pen) o…

I've been using http://naturesoundsfor.me/ as they let you mix a bunch of sounds and control the relative volumes of each. I've settled on 40% "Creek" and 70% "Rain" for sleeping.

Are you sure you're not mixing up neutrons and protons? Here are some typical depth dose curves from google images( http://www.nap.edu/books/11976/xhtml/images/p20014b2bg205001... …

Yeah it's a shame. The wiki page for ".edu" specifies "Since 2001, new registrants to the domain have been required to be United States-affiliated institutions of higher education,…

McGill University doesn't use an .edu domain, I tried signing up in case they included it anyway but got nothing.

I don't get the argument. The power requirement of running the entire world's monetary infrastructure is probably much bigger, no?

My reply was in response to the statement "numpy is two orders of magnitude faster here; it's evidently using a highly optimized internal codepath for random sequence generation", …

The original source is taken from a medical image DICOM viewer. In my limited experience as a medical physics student, the people working with these tools would really benefit from…