Our Group:
The Medical Physics Group comprises faculty in multiple UB and Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) departments, post-doctoral staff, graduate student assistants, and undergraduate students with additional contributions from bioengineering faculty, clinical faculty, allied faculty, technical and administrative staff.
Our Extended Group:
The Medical Physics Group is contained within a larger
family of multi-disciplinary, multi-departmental investigators. This
is a unique university-based group consisting of basic scientists, engineers,
and clinicians associated with six Departments at five locations. For
imaging, these include primary UB research sites such as the UB
Toshiba Stroke Research Center (TSRC), a main
neuro-vascular clinical site at Millard
Fillmore Hospital,
another clinical office and lab site at Erie
County Medical Center (ECMC) (which is the clinical
site for the UB Radiation Physics group), the primary
therapeutic radiation physics site at RPCI, the primary nuclear medicine
physics site on the UB campus, research and clinical MRI sites at RPCI,
and offices, laboratory, and resources at UB's Amherst (North) campus,
home of the UB
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
All locations are within a twenty-five minute drive
(on major highways) of one another.
See the faculty
webpage for more
specific details regarding the Medical Physics Program faculty.
Our Research Facilities:
In co-ordination with other UB faculty we have established
a multi-disciplinary research group, the UB Toshiba
Stroke Research Center, based upon a major grant
from the Toshiba Corp of Digital Angiography equipment dedicated
to research. The Center is housed in the fourth floor of the Biomedical
Research Building located on the UB Main Street campus. Additional grants
by foundation, corporate, and government sponsors have contributed to
making this exciting research center a unique place for research training
in multidisciplinary, translational areas.
The Main Street research
facility has substantial imaging capabilities. There are two complete
rooms of Digital Subtraction Angiography equipment
with three (soon to be four) floor C-arms, including
a new Infinix gantry capable of 3D cone beam computed tomography
(soon to be upgraded with digital flat panel). Other radiation sources
for mammography, and a micro CT machine which was built by our group,
are also available for research. Unique
micro-angiographic fluoroscopic detectors being developed by our group are
also available. Finally, we have specialized capabilities such as computer
controlled laser micro-welding for prototype development of endovascular
devices used in new image guided interventional procedures.
At RPCI the therapeutic radiation physics group
has four clinical linear accelerators, IMRT capability, a gamma-knife
installation, and complete brachytherapy facility. The nuclear
medicine physics group is involved with a large cyclotron facility which
is responsible for PET isotope production. There is also a clinical PET
scanning facility at the adjacent VA
Hospital, and there is a research
micro-PET scanner as well. For MRI at RPCI, there is a 4.7T small animal
imaging system dedicated to research as well as clinical MRI scanning
facilities.