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
| Nuclear Medicine
Radiology
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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