To keep up with the rapid development of medical imaging technology that increasingly utilizes physical phenomena, it is necessary to increase knowledge about medical imaging physics for practitioners and medical physicists. It is also needed to increase the role and capacity of medical physicists.
For this reason, FMIPA UI through the KBI Medical Physics and Biophysics, Department of Physics held an international seminar titled 2018 Imaging Physics Course which opened on Thursday (4/10) in building B, room 101 of FMIPA UI Depok.
The event was opened by the Chair of the Physics Department FMIPA UI, Dr. rer nat. Agus Salam, who in this case represented Dr. rer nat. Abdul Haris as the Dean of FMIPA UI who was unable to attend.
Aside from being a media for capacity building and renewal of knowledge, the event which was held until Sunday (7/10) is also a gathering place for medical physicists from within the country and from neighboring countries. Present as a speaker, namely Dr. Gregorius Ben Prayogi, Sp. Rad. Onk (Dept. Radiotherapy RSCM / PORI), dr. Kardinah, Sp.Rad (Dharmais Cancer Hospital / PDSRI), Prof. Dr. dr. A. Hussein K., Sp.KN. (UNPAD / PKNI), dr. Sunarya Soerianata (PIKI), Dr. Choirul Anam (UNDIP), Ika Bayuadi, M.Sc (LFMB UI), Lukmanda Evan Lubis, M.Sc (Dept. of Physics FMIPA UI), Dr. Cheng Saw (USA), Prof. Dr. Tinsu Pan (USA), Dr. Frank Dong (USA), Douglas Pfeiffer, M.S. (USA), and Prof. Dr. Kwan Hoong Ng (Malaysia).
The participants who attended were more than 180 people consisting of UI and outside UI academics and students, medical physicist practitioners from hospitals, regulatory / government bodies (Ministry of Health and BAPETEN staff), and BATAN researchers. Not only from within the country, but this activity was also attended by participants from Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
Lukmanda Evan Lubis, M.Sc. as Co-Director and one of the speakers explained that this activity is an effort to update medical imaging physics for medical physicists not only in the field of diagnostic/interventional radiology but also medical physicists in the fields of radiotherapy and nuclear medicine.
In the presentation material, the Physics Department lecturer presented a presentation entitled “Dose and Image Quality Optimization in Interventional Radiology / Cardiology”. Through this topic, he explained the interventional radiology and cardiology procedures, where the radiation dose received by patients was generally quite high. However, he said, this radiation provides diagnostic benefits, so limitation (limitation) is not possible. Therefore, the role of medical physicists is needed to optimize the procedure in terms of balanced radiation doses with image quality for diagnostics.
The material also describes how medical physicists in hospitals can optimize medical imaging by first quantifying and measuring radiation doses and image quality using physical principles.
Supriyanto Ardjo Pawiro, Ph.D. as the Event Director and Chairperson of AFISMI (Indonesian Medical Physicists Alliance) hopes that the presence of experts who share their experiences will have a positive impact on the progress of medical physics in the future because according to him this activity is part of the educational process to produce Medical Physicist personnel with the best quality.
“This is important, because professional medical physicists are needed in carrying out these tasks, of course by taking into account radiation protection factors for the safety of officers, patients, the community and the environment.” He explained.
This activity took place in collaboration with FMIPA UI with AFISMI, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the ASEAN College of Medical Physics (ACOMP), and sponsored by PT. Medtek, PT. Quantum Core Accuracy, CV. Aldi Cipta Perdana, and PT. Besindo.
