Our Facility and Faculty
University of Michigan Medical Center
The University of Michigan Medical Center includes three hospitals (C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, University Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital) and three centers (Cardiovascular Center, A. Alfred Taubman Health Care Center, and Comprehensive Cancer Center) . The department of radiation oncology is located on level B2 of University Hospital. The main department is affiliated with several radiation oncology clinics, including the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Ann Arbor and several community hospitals. The main department is equipped with:
- four Varian EX LINACS with MLCs
- one 600CD Varian LINAC
- one GammaMed Plus iX HDR unit
- one Philips 16-slice CT simulator and
- one Siemens Skyra 3T MRI simulator
Radiation Physics Faculty
The University of Michigan has a large physics group, including seventeen faculty physicists at the main department, with clinical, academic, and research responsibilities. Their research interests are in the areas of:
- 3D treatment planning
- Clinical dose escalation studies
- Computer-controlled treatment delivery
- IMRT delivery
- IMRT plan optimization
- Brachytherapy
- Study of treatment accuracy
- Uncertainties and organ motion
- Development and use of amorphous silicon flat panel imagers
- Enhanced use of MRI, PET and other imagining for treatment planning
