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Unit 2 Medical Physics
Paul Kane
School of Health Sciences
UUJ
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Topics for this session
• Fibre Optics and Lasers in medicine
• Light in therapy
• Ultrasound in therapy
• Radioisotopes in therapy
• Choosing modalities
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Fibre Optics
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Fibre Optics Explained
• Glass fibres around 120 micrometres dia
• Can carry light up to 50km without need for repeaters or boosting
• Commonly known applications are in data and voice communications
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Why the light “Stays in”
• When light meets an interface between 2 materials it will be transmitted or reflected
• Fibre optics manipulate this phenomenon
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Refractive Index and TIR
Low to High High to Low
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ZigZag – NOT STRAIGHT!
Lower Refractive Index
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Medical Application
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Medical Application
• Fibre optic tube• Light source• Lens• Can be used to
explore natural body cavities
• OR small artificial ones
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Advantages
• Can examine a variety of structures without requiring surgery
• Minor apertures can expand role further
• Can carry out surgical procedures via specialised variants of endoscope
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Light in Therapy
• Fibre optics can convey special light such as LASERs
• Light Amplified by Stimulation of Emitted Radiation
• LASER useful as surgical tool
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Laser Applications
• Eye Surgery
• Hair Removal
• Procedures on skin
• General Surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Urology
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Other Light Applications
• SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)
• Skin Disorders
• Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome
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Ultrasound in Therapy
• Useful with injuries to soft tissue and joints
• Can aid the bodies own repair mechanisms
• Relieve pain and increase mobility
• Sports medicine makes great use of it
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Specialised Technique
• Lithotripsy
• Derived from the greek for “Breaking Stones”
• Break down of areas of calcification in areas like kidneys and gall bladder
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Why use Ultrasound?
• Readily available
• Proven technology
• Painless
• No need for surgery
• Safe and relatively cheap
• Not always effective
• Some procedures may require repetition
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Radioisotopes in Therapy
• Nuclear medicine utilises unsealed radioactive sources often attaching to a pharmaceutical to encourage uptake by specific tissue
• Therapeutic applications also use sealed sources
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Example Applications
• I131 – thyroid cancer or thyrotoxicosis
• Ir192 – breast cancer
• Cs137 – endometrial tumours
• Co60 – teletherapy units
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Afterloading
• Catheters introduced to treatment area
• Therapist controls insertion of sources from behind shielding
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Teletherapy
• Useful for a wide variety of radiotherapy applications
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Attributes of Therapeutic Isotopes
• In a form which can be manipulated
• Tend to be beta emitters
• Co60 is a gamma emitter
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Problems
• Radiation protection issues
• Dosimetry
• Finite life span of isotopes
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Which Modality?
• What is available
• What does the clinician recommend
• What can the patient tolerate
• Is there a safer/cheaper alternative?
• Can potential risks be justified?
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QUESTIONS?