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 The Department of Radiation Physics provides clinical support, performs research, and outreach to physicists and radiation physics centers with educational opportunities and quality assurance services. More than 30 medical physicists assist the Division of Radiation Oncology in treating 4,000 patients annually, ensuring that each treatment is safely and accurately administered through collaboration and ongoing technology assessment.
Our mission includes more than patient care. Faculty members provide education and training to dosimetrists, residents and fellows. Research efforts focus on improving patient care and advancing radiation technology. The department’s Radiation Dosimetry Services and Radiological Physics Center provide auditing services to more than 80% of U.S. megavoltage radiotherapy facilities.
The department is housed in more than 22,500 square feet of space within M. D. Anderson’s Main Building. Equipment overseen by the faculty includes 12 high-energy treatment units. Physicists also provide services at four community-based radiation treatment centers in Montgomery, Fort Bend, Galveston and Harris counties. Our faculty and staff play a vital role in the continuing transition to more sophisticated technology that will make treatments safer, more efficient, and less expensive.
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