Radiation Oncology Physics

Category 3: Image acquisition processing and display

• Imaging for therapy simulation, planning, and delivery. The role of MRI and PET.
• Identification of relevant imaging modalities and their applications, reconstruction techniques, image acquisition parameters, planar and volumetric imaging, purpose and creation of reference, verification and localization images.
• Image fusion and image registration techniques and applications.
• Organ/target segmentation, definitions, nomenclature, identification of structures and methods of segmenting.
• Data communication.
• Equipment for imaging and basic imaging physics as it applies to therapy imaging, evaluation of image quality.