Radiation and Medical Physics group at the University of Surrey

The Radiation and Medical Physics group is part of the Department of Physics and its research activities span across conventional and spectroscopy X-ray imaging, radiation dosimetry, development of new radiation detectors and radiation biology. The group explore the fundamental properties and interactions of radiation in a range of medical and industrial applications. 

Department of Medical Physics at the RSCH

The Department of Medical Physics at the Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust covers six main areas of work Radiotherapy Physics, Nuclear Medicine Physics & Radiopharmacy, Regional Radiation Protection Service & Radiological Physics, Technical Services, Scientific Computing and the National Coordinating Centre for the Physics of Mammography. 

Medical Physics at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

The Medical Physics activities at the National Physical Laboratory support rapid acceleration of the development and implementation of innovative diagnostic and therapeutic technologies into clinical practice by providing technology and standards to enable radiation to be used responsibly, effectively and with confidence. Research includes: radiation dosimetry, nuclear medicine, radiation biology, MR imaging, ultrasound and data science.

Current projects include:

• Development and characterization of microdosimeters for proton and hadron therapy
• Assessment of mechanisms regulating biological response to high dose rate (FLASH)
• Radiobiological modelling of radiation effectiveness for biologically optimized radiotherapy