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Visiting scientist, Dr. Sam Flynn, from the UK National Physical Laboratory, blogs about the NRC and OMPI members
Dr. Sam Flynn, who is from the Radiotherapy and Radiation Dosimetry group at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, has been a visiting scientist at the National Research Council (NRC) since the spring, learning more…
Medical physics students tour TOH's medical imaging and nuclear medicine facilities
On November 18, students from PHYS 5204 "Physics of Medical Imaging” received a tour of the medical imaging facilities at The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic Campus. Alex Wolf, who is the x-ray quality control manager at TOH, and…
Congratulations to Victoria Howard for the successful defense of her MSc thesis!
Victoria successfully defended her thesis, "Development of a robust thermal calibration methodology for pyroelectric calorimeters“ On Friday August 29th
Congratulations to her supervisors, Drs. Brian Muir, James Renaud…
Dr. Murugkar featured in the Ottawa Citizen
OMPI member, Dr. Sangeeta Murugkar, who leads the Light-Assisted Medical Physics and Engineering Laboratory at Carleton University, was recently featured in the Ottawa Citizen. The article highlights Dr. Murugkar’s…
Congratulations to Eva Anderson for the successful defense of her MSc thesis!
Eva successfully defended her thesis, "Separating the vascular and nonvascular sources of magnetic susceptibility in physiological MRI techniques based on the reversible transverse relaxation rate, R2’“, before the winter…
OMPI newsletters from 1997 and 1998 now online
Curious about the history of OMPI? Newsletters from 1997 and 1998 have been added to the archives on the annual reports page: https://physics.carleton.ca/ompi/about/archive-ompi-annual-reports
Zoe Boukouris and Haydn Flemming receive 1st place wins at CUMPC
Carleton undergraduate Physics students Zoe Boukouris and Haydn Flemming won 1st place in their respective categories of the students' oral presentation session at the 2024 Canadian Undergraduate Medical Physics Conference (…
Congratulations to Elizabeth Fletcher for the successful defense of her PhD thesis!
Elizabeth Fletcher successfully defended her PhD thesis: "Advances in Monte Carlo modelling for characterization of specific energy and absorbed dose distributions from cell to patient length scales"!
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Congratulations to David Kemdirim for the successful defense of his MSc thesis!
David successfully defended his thesis titled "Optimization of primary beam for x-ray dual-mode imager comprising radiography and coherent scatter". Congratulations are also in order for his thesis supervisor, Paul Johns!…
Senate Medal awarded to Dr. Harry Allen
Congratulations to Dr. Harry Allen, who won the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement for his PhD thesis, "Development and Application of a Multimodal Coherent Raman Scattering Microscope,” at last week's…