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April 21-30, 2022

Dancing Radiation Robot!

Saturday
April 30, 2022, 10:00 am -
10:30 am
  • Audience: Teens, Adults
  • Topic: Health & Medicine, Technology
  • Format: Virtual

In this virtual tour, we will provide a sneak peek of the UCSF Radiation Oncology Department. We will demonstrate a robotic-based linear accelerator used for radiation treatment of cancer and show how it delivers radiation (and dances)! What does a medical physicist do? What are their roles in radiology and oncology at hospitals? And how does one become a medical physicist? If you think science is cool, you might enjoy medical physics!

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UC San Francisco – Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology

The members of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco, are international leaders in the field of radiation medicine, with a history of pioneering research and technological innovations that have improved radiation treatment all over the world.
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