Medical Physics - news and perspectives at the Western University of Timisoara

Medical physics has a long and illustrious history. We can say that in Romania the medical physical specialty appeared among the first specializations of physics. Nowadays, the term medical physics usually refers to the activity of physicists employed in hospitals, which deals mainly with the medical applications of radiation (ionizing and non-ionizing), diagnostic imaging and clinical physiological measurements. This involvement in the Romanian clinical activity started about 65 years ago, but the relationship between physics and medicine has a much longer history and this year we celebrate 135 years since the beginning of the first course of medical physics taught to the students from the first year of Romanian medical education. In this report, we have traced the history of Romanian medical physics from the earliest period recorded, when physical agents such as heat and light began to be used to diagnose and treat patients. These early investigations led directly to the development of specialties, such as electrophysiology, biomechanics and ophthalmology. Physics-based medical technology developed rapidly during the 19th century, with the revolutionary discoveries of radiation and radioactivity at the end of the century, which ushered in a new era in radiation-based medical diagnosis and treatment, thus giving birth to the profession. modern medical physics. Further developments in imaging, in particular, revolutionized medical practice. We are now on the verge of a new revolution in post-genomic personalized medicine, with physics-based techniques back in the foreground. As before, these techniques are often the unpredictable fruits of previous investments in fundamental physics research.

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