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College on Medical Physics 2024
 Links to the Sprawls Topics, References and Resources

To all participants,
We have come together here in Trieste from many nations but with one common goal.  That is to improve the effectiveness and safety of medical imaging procedures in our individual countries when we return.  The medical physicist is an important part of that process because we have the knowledge of the imaging process, both the necessary image quality with a managed radiation dose to the patient.  Quality control applied to the equipment is important but it is "the human factor", the knowledge of the medical personnel conducting the procedures that has the greatest effect on quality and safety.  You and I can continue to work together with our Collaborative Teaching to produce more knowledgeable medical imaging professionals in al of our countries.  The links to many resources that you can use in your teaching and consultations are on this webpage. Please contact me when I can be of help.

Regards,

Perry Sprawls
sprawls@emory.edu  

Sprawls 2024 College on Medical Physics Topics

This section provides additional resources relating to our sessions in the classroom. These include videos of the presentations, all of the visuals and images in high quality that you can use for review and study and insert into your PowerPoint presentations to use in your teaching. Also, there will be references for your additional study and research.

( This website is being updated and materials added as we go through the 2024 Program.)

1. Characteristics of Medical Images that Determine Visibility of Body Structure  and Clinical Conditions 
Video: Sprawls Visualization Factors 2024 - YouTube
Visuals for Study and Teaching

2. Digital Image Structure, Characteristics, and Effects of Visibility
 and Clinical Applications
Video: Sprawls 2 Digital Image Char 2024 (youtube.com)
Visuals for Study and Teaching

3. Medical Imaging Procedure Optimization and the Expanding
 Role of Medical Physicists
Video: Sprawls Optimization of Imaging Procedures Copy (youtube.com)
Visuals for Study and Teaching

4. The Learning and Teaching Process Applied to Medical Physics
Video SprawlsLearnTeachCMP2024 (youtube.com)
Visuals for Study and Teaching
Sprawls Learning and Teaching

  5. Medical Physics Education Models and Methods
Video SprawlsEdModelsMethodsCMP2024PS (youtube.com)
Visuals for Study and Teaching

 

 A large Collection of visuals that can be downloaded and inserted into PowerPoint presentations.

Go to: http://www.sprawls.org/SprawlsVisuals

Textbooks The books below are the original publications. Many of the chapters are also available under the specific topics below.
	A Comprehensive Coverage of the  Physics of Medical Imaging up until the 1980s. Especially Valued for the Illustrations. Continues to be a good educational resource for the physical principles of medical imaging and the discussions of technology, film, intensifying screens, etc  is of historic interest. Complete book (PDF format) available online at:  https://w3.aapm.org/pubs/documents/SprawlsPPMI2.pdf  Individual Chapters for Online Reading Available at: http://www.sprawls.org/ppmi2/
A complete, easy to understand, coverage of what everyone  who works with MRI needs to know about the MRI process. Complete book (PDF format) available online at: https://w3.aapm.org/pubs/documents/ SprawlsMagneticResonanceImagingPMT.pdf Individual Chapters for Online Reading Available at: http://www.sprawls.org/mripmt/

Selected Modules

 The Physics and Technology of Mammography (sprawls.org)

 Radiation Quantities and Units (sprawls.org)

 Patient Exposure and Protection (sprawls.org)

 CT Image Quality and Dose Management (sprawls.org)

References for the Development of Effective Medical Physics and Radiology Education Publications by Perry Spawls EFFECTIVE PHYSICS EDUCATION FOR OPTIMIZING CT IMAGE QUALITY AND DOSE MANAGEMENT WITH OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES . P. Sprawls1, P-A. T. Duong,  MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.1, No.1, 2013 http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2013-01/MPI-2013-01-p046.pdf PHYSICS EDUCATION FOR THE OPTIMIZATION OF MRI CLINICAL PROCEDURES: VISUALIZING THE INVISIBLE AND COLLABORATIVE TEACHING  P. Sprawls. MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.1, No.2, 2013 http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2013-02/MPI-2013-02-p134.pdf OPTIMIZING MEDICAL IMAGE CONTRAST, DETAIL AND NOISE IN THE DIGITAL ERA.  P. Sprawls.  MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.2, No.1, 2014 http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2014-01/MPI-2014-01-p041.pdf EDUCATION MODELS FOR THE EXPANDING ROLE OF CLINICAL MEDICAL PHYSICS.  P. Sprawls. MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.5, No.2, 2017 http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2017-02/MPI-2017-02-p167.pdf DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE MENTAL KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES FOR MEDICAL PHYSICS APPLICATIONS.   P. Sprawls,  MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.6, No.1, 2018 http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2018-01/MPI-2018-01-p128.pdf DIGITAL ELEMENTS, IMAGE QUALITY, RADIATION EXPOSURE, AND PROCEDURE OPTIMIZATION.   P. Sprawls.  MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.6, No.2, 2018 http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2018-02/MPI-2018-02-p255.pdf EFFECTIVE PHYSICS KNOWLEDGE FOR DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGISTS P. Sprawls.  MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.7, No.3, 2019 http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2019-03/MPI-2019-03-p257.pdf ENHANCING MEDICAL PHYSICS TEACHING WITH IMAGE REPOSITORIES AND SHARED RESOURCES P. Sprawls. MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.8, No.3, 2020 http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2020-03/MPI-2020-03-p479.pdf MAPS FOR DEVELOPING MEDICAL PHYSICS CONCEPT NETWORKS IN THE MIND P. Sprawls MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.10, No.1, 2022 http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2022-01/MPI-2022-01-p019.pdf Preserving the History and Heritage of Medical Physics and Clinical Applications Projects and Publications by Perry Sprawls ROENTGEN’S INVESTIGATION DETERMINING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF X-RADIATION P. Sprawls. MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.2, No.2, 2014 http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2014-02/MPI-2014-02-p435.pdf THE MANY STEPS AND EVOLUTION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY TECHNOLOGY  AND IMAGING METHODS, THE QUEST FOR ENHANCED VISIBILITY The First Fifty Years P.  Sprawls.  MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.7, No.3, 2019 http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2020-SI-04/MPI-2020-SI-04-p351.pdf THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN MAMMOGRAPHY A CONTINUING QUEST FOR VISIBILITY P. Sprawls.  MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.7, No.3, 2019 http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2019-SI-02/MPI-2019-SI-02-p141.pdf  FILM-SCREEN RADIOGRAPHY RECEPTOR DEVELOPMENT A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE P.  Sprawls.  MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.7, No.3, 2019 http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2018-SI-01/MPI-2018-SI-01-p56.pdf HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF PHYSICS CLASSROOM LEARNING AND TEACHING  A Personal Perspective and Journey Perry Sprawls MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, Special Issue, History of Medical Physics 8, 2022 968 http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2022-SI-08/MPI-2022-SI-08-p968.pdf MEDICAL PHYSICS FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS OF MEDICINE (Textbook Published in 1885) John C. Draper, M.D., L.L.D.   Selection of Illustrations and Discussion Provided By Perry Sprawls MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, Special Issue, History of Medical Physics 8, 2022 1007 http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2022-SI-08/MPI-2022-SI-08-p1007.pdf MONUMENT TO THE X-RAY AND RADIUM MARTYRS OF ALL NATIONS Perry Sprawls MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, Special Issue, History of Medical Physics 8, 2022 1020 http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2022-SI-08/MPI-2022-SI-08-p1020.pdf

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