On 8-10 February 2016 IOMP took part in the IAEA Consultancy meeting Radiation protection in dental uses of ionizing radiation, together with specialist representing the World Dental Federation, the International Association of Dento-Maxillofacial Radiology, and the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Paediatric Imaging. The meeting reviewed the draft training material...

1st European Congress of Medical Physics 2016 September 1-4, 2016 Athens, Greece www.ecmp2016.org

The International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) is pleased to announce the IUPAP Young Scientist Award 2016. This award is established and funded by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and awarded by the IOMP as the IUPAP affiliated International Commission for Medical Physics. It will be...

Congratulations to Madan Rehani, PhD, on receiving the 2015 Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging Butterfly Award

On 10 December 2015 the Academic Council of Medical University Plovdiv, Bulgaria bestowed upon Prof. Slavik Tabakov, IOMP President and Director of MSc programmes at King’s College London, their Doctor Honoris Causa degree for his contribution to the development of medical physics in Bulgaria and Eastern Europe, and for the...

Congress: 47th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Medical Physics (DGMP) e. V. 19th Annual Meeting of the German Chapter of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) e. V. Venue and Date: Congress Centrum Würzburg/Germany September 7–10, 2016 Conference President: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. et med. habil....

November 7th – 8th, 2015 “13th Romanian Conference of Medical Physics” Cluj Napoca, Romania “13th Romanian Conference of Medical Physics” (has incorporated the CFMR Annual General Meeting), dedicating the November 7th in memory of Mariei Salomea Skłodowska-Curie and November 8th of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. The conference is organised by the...

Currently, the establishment and use of DRLs for common radiological examinations is a requirement in International Standards and national regulations. But very few countries have established DRLs so far. ‘Japan has announced its first DRLs’ based on wide scale surveys of patient radiation doses. This is a very significant step...

  Release date: 27th May 2015   Imaging for Saving Kids – the Inside Story about Patient Safety in Paediatric Radiology   The International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) includes medical physicists (MPs) from 80 countries. MPs are responsible under International Basic Safety Standards (BSS)1 for optimization of radiation protection...

Imaging for Saving Kids – the Inside Story about Patient Safety in Paediatric Radiology, 68th World Health Assembly

From vision to sight: the MRI linac