Key Journals and Their Focus
Introduces journals that publish medical physicist research and guidance including Medical physicist, physicist in Medicine and Biology, Radiotherapy and Oncology, and Practical Radiation Oncology; explains article types such as technical developments, dosimetry studies, and QA reports.
How to Read Radiation Physicist Research
A checklist for appraising physicist studies: note measurement methods, phantom design, uncertainty analysis, equipment models, and clinical relevance of reported metrics.
Using Articles for Protocol Development
Advice on extracting calibration methods, tolerance thresholds, and QA tolerances from papers to support protocol updates, departmental QA, and vendor acceptance testing.