Experts call for China to develop medical physics

CT, radiotherapy, MRI..It is well known that these nounsbelong to the scope of medical physicsRecently held in Beijing, the Chinese Physical Society medical physics professional committee of the first academic report meeting,experts have suggested that China as soon as possible to set up professional positions of medical physicists,vigorously develop theof medical physics,change the current medical physics is not valued, medical physics and medical physics researchtalent
serious shortage, high-precision medical equipment dependent on importsMedical physics is an interdisciplinaryof applying the principles and methods of physics to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment andhealth careof humandiseases , including medical imaging physics, nuclear medicine physics and radiotherapy physics, as well as the application of ultrasound, microwave, radio frequency, laser and so on in medicine Over the past half century, medical physics has developed rapidly in developed countries such as Britain and the United States, with many universities with medical physics majors, and the number of Chinese medicine physics practitioners has reached 13 per million population
" Many small and medium-sized countries in Asia have this discipline and medical physics system, but China, with a population of 1.3 billion, does not Professor Zhao Nanming, chairman of the Medical Physics Committee of the Chinese Physical Society, said, "Because there is no such position and system, it cannot attract more talents to work in this field." "
statistics show that there are now fewer than 0.8 medical physics workers per million people in China." According to the estimate of the population of our country, more than 10,000 medical physicists are needed in the future Professor Zhao Nanming said that the shortage of medical physiotherapists has prevented some modern medical equipment from being used correctly and adequately, and some patients have not been treated accurately and effectively, and even suffered medical injuries such as unnecessary radiation damage China spends a lot of foreign exchange imports and medical physics-related medical equipment every year, affecting the research and development of autonomous high-precision medical equipment "The introduction alone cannot, china should speed up independent research on proton therapy equipment." Long-term research on proton therapy tumor , said Fang Shouxian, a high-energy accelerator physicist and member of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 2
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2 1 Xiangshan Scientific Conference strongly called for the establishment of a medical physics department as soon as possible, the establishment of professional positions of medical physicists In recent years, of Tsinghua University, Peking University , Wuhan University and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics have set up new disciplines or professional directions in medical physics After more than a year of preparation, the Chinese Physical Society Medical Physics Professional Committee was established in Tsinghua University in September this year, bringing together the tsinghua , Peking University , the Institute of High Energy Physics
of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Medicine
the Oncology Hospital and dozens of other institutions of higher learning, research institutes and well-known hospitals experts