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Health Physics in Medicine

Health Physics in Medicine

With over 40 million nuclear medicine procedures per year and growing, radiation safety is vital to the success of medical treatments. UAB Health Physics researchers work closely with UAB’s hospital and radiation safety program to solve modern problems confronting radiation safety in the hospital. Professor Caudill spent several years working in hospitals across the globe in radiation safety and brings that experience to UAB ready to tackle the next generation of challenges. Recent student publications include:

Environmental Health Physics

Environmental Health Physics

UABs Health Physics professors are extremely passionate about health physics and the environment. UAB was recently funded for their D2ROPS grant with the NRC to study in detail regulatory inconsistencies between states and federal regulations. Drs Wilson and Caffrey also regularly study dose implications from natural and man-made radiation in the environment. Recent student publications include:

Community Health Physics

Community Health Physics

It is vital that the risks of radiation are communicated well to everyone! Recent projects from UAB studied how pop culture retains persistent misconceptions about radiation that likely influence the general public’s fears and radiophobia. UAB also works hard to study how radiation safety training can be optimized in the post-covid world. Recent student works include:

Low-Dose Impacts

Low-Dose Impacts

Few areas of radiation are as still poorly understood as low-dose and low-dose rate radiation damage in humans. UAB aims to be a center in which experts turn to, in order to solve once and for all, the linear no-threshold model uncertainty. Recent student publications include:

Non-Ionizing Health Physics

Non-Ionizing Health Physics

Lasers, 5G, and microwaves are all included within an area of radiation called non-ionizing. This radiation does not have sufficient power to ionize atoms however can still be a very real radiation safety hazard.