IPOPFG, EPE Porto, Portugal

MEDICAL PHYSICS DEPARTMENT, MEDICAL PHYSICS AND RADIATION PROTECTION GROUP

The main mission of IPOPFG, EPE is to provide health care to the population with cancer, with the highest quality, efficiency and human rights respect as well as to develop research, training and education in all oncology related fields of science.

The Medical Physics Service integrates 9 Physicists and 4 Technologists.

Major equipment resources involved in the Medical Physics Department activity

Radiotherapy:
8 Linear accelerators
− IMRT
− RapidArc
− IGRT
− Radiosurgery
− Intraoperative Radiotherapy
3 External Beam Therapy TPS, 1 HDR remote afterloader, 2 PDR remote afterloaders, 2 Brachytherapy TPS, 1MRI, 2 CT

Nuclear Medicine:
1 PET/CT, 4 gamma cameras, 1 DEXA, 9 ambient radiation level monitors, 2 scintillation chamber well counters,
1 Ge-68/Ga-68 peptide labeling module, 3 dose calibrators, 1 external thyroid counter

Radiology:
1 MRI, 2 CT, Mammography, Conventional Radiology

Dosimetry and QA resources involved in the Medical Physics Department activity:

Radiotherapy

PTW Seven29 Matrix
PTW OCTAVIUS
PTW DAVID
Several PTW ion chambers, well chambers
and solid state detectors
Several PTW Electrometers
3 MP3 Water Phantoms
PTW diode in vivo dosimetry system
IMRT and Radiosurgery phantoms from other companies
Radochromic film dosimetry
Mosfet in vivo dosimetry system
EPID Dosimetry system

Nuclear Medicine

Several phantoms for QA of PET/CT, gamma cameras and activity determination devices (linearity, uniformity, sensibility, energy resolution, spatial resolution, etc.)

Radiology

PTW test patterns
PTW radiology detector and ion chambers
PTW DIADOS and DIAVOLT
NORMI 4/FLU PTW T42027
Candelameter PTW 54001
X-Check Beam PTW
Mammography phantoms
Several other phantoms

Projects and activities

- Quality control, Clinical Dosimetry, Basic dosimetry, Radiologic Protection, Individual monitoring
- Equipment selection and commissioning
- Formation and training/ professional and post-graduation level
- IORT, IMRT, TBI

Research activities

- Radiotherapy protocols optimization, Radiation Protection, New Quality Control methodologies
- Institutional protocol with Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
- Collaboration with Universidade de Aveiro research groups
- Collaboration with Instituto Tecnológico Nuclear

Contacts:

Joana Lencart
Medical Physics Department
joana.lencart[at]ipoporto.min-saude.pt

João Santos
Medical Physics and Radiation Protection Group
j.a.miranda.santos[at]gmail.com

IPOPFG, EPE
Serviço de Física Médica
Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida,
4200-072 Porto
T. 22 5084000 F. 225084001

www.ipoporto.min-saude.pt
http://sites.google.com/site/ipoportoresearchcenter/researchgroups/medicalphysics