Medical Radiations

[wallah11]

Hey
Anyone do medical radiations- medical imaging?
Just wanted to know what the level of maths involved in the course is comparable to, doing methods at the moment but my SACS are not great.

Thanks

[hard]

dangerous job...

[wallah11]

how come?

[hard]

well, even though radiation experts and people within the medical imaging area hide behind some sort of lead wall when using high frequency equipment such as x-rays, they are still exposed to some particles that float in the air, and if accumulate that together over a period of 15-20 years and you could have major health problems.

[ninwa]

my boyfriend does this course, he's in the nuclear medicine stream. from what I've seen of his work it's mostly quite simple calculations ... though you do statistics too ... which is like further maths apparently (I don't know I didn't do further)

[wallah11]

sounds better than maths which is irrelevant

[ninwa]

oh you wanted medical radiations - medical imaging
he does medical radiations - nuclear medicine
but I think all medical radiations streams do similar levels of maths anyway

[wallah11]

yeh i think quite a few subjects are common, i have spoken to some other people at monash about their course, they dont know why methods is a pre-req

[ninwa]

apparently RMIT med rad far beats Monash med rad

then again I'm hearing this from a very biased source of course lol