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Oklahoma State University
PHYS 5583 Physics of Medical Imaging Prerequisites: PHYS 4663 and PHYS 5523 or consent of instructor. Description: Review of radiation interaction with matter, x-ray imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ultrasound, Scintillation Imaging. Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), Positron Emission Topography (PET). Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics PHYS 5593 Physics of Radiation Therapy Prerequisites: PHYS 5533 or consent of instructor. Description: Overview of radiation therapy, dosimetry in radiation therapy, megavoltage x-ray and electron therapy, manual treatment planning, computer-based treatment planning, brachytherapy, proton therapy. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics PHYS 5613 Quantum Mechanics I Prerequisites: PHYS 5453. Description: Postulates of quantum mechanics. Operators, commutation relations, eigenfunctions. Schroedinger, Heisenberg and interaction formalisms, angular momentum and central field problems; nondegenerate perturbation theory. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics PHYS 5663 Solid State Physics I Prerequisites: PHYS 4513. Description: Crystal structure, cohesive energy of ionic crystals and metals, specific heats, free electron theory of metals, band theory, Brillouin zones, insulators and alloys; magnetic properties, optical properties and thermal and electrical conductivity of solids. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics PHYS 5693 Clinical Studies in Medical Physics Prerequisites: PHYS 5583, PHYS 5593 and consent of instructor. Description: Students will perform a clinical rotation within a hospital- based radiation therapy treatment clinic, during which they will shadow a medical physicist and observe and participate in (when appropriate) the physicists daily clinical activities. The student will learn the technical aspects of CT and MR imaging, radiotherapy treatment planning and delivery, and routine and patient specific calibration/quality assurance procedures. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lab: 6 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lab Department/School: Physics
PHYS 5713 Solid State Physics II Prerequisites: PHYS 5663 or equivalent. Description: Symmetry, dielectric properties, ferroelectrics, magnetic properties, mechanical properties, and defects of solids. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture
Department/School: Physics PHYS 5813 General Relativity Prerequisites: PHYS 5453 or consent of instructor.
Description: Theory and applications of general relativity: the principle of equivalence, general coordinate invariance, tensors, affine connections, Einstein's field equations, classic tests, application to stellar dynamics, black holes, and cosmology. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics PHYS 5960 Problems in Chemical Physics Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Description: Intermolecular forces, interaction of radiation with matter in bulk form, dielectric properties of matter, polymer physics and quantum theory of biopolymers. Offered for variable credit, 3-6 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours. Credit hours: 3-6 Contact hours: Other: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Physics PHYS 6000 Doctoral Dissertation Research Prerequisites: Admission to candidacy and permission of major professor. Description: Offered for variable credit, 1-15 credit hours, maximum of 60 credit hours. Credit hours: 1-15 Contact hours: Other: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Physics PHYS 6010 Advanced Graduate Seminar Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Description: Special topics of an advanced nature in physics. Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 15 credit hours. Credit hours: 1-3 Contact hours: Other: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Physics PHYS 6113 Advanced Theory of Solids Prerequisites: PHYS 5663. Description: Many-body techniques, transport processes, band theoretical techniques, superconductivity, dynamics of electrons in a magnetic field, and alloys. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics
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