Preparing for a Medical Dosimetry Interview - Advice Needed

[palnud]

I have recently applied to a medical dosimetry program (Roswell Park) and was chosen as one of the candidates to receive an interview. On my interview I will have to take a brief exam covering math, anatomy and logic. My question is, are there any medical physicists or dosimetrists that have been in my position that can advise me on what to familiarize myself with as far as the math goes? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Choppy]

I strongly suspect the math will be on a fairly basic level. Dosimetrist need to have a good feeling for how to properly weight beams and for doing hand monitor unit calculations so there will likely be questions on inverse relations. You'll have to be comfortable reading and interpreting a cummulative dose-volume histogram so there will likely be some kind of question in that respect - something like if you're told you need to meet a constraint of no more than 30% of a lung volume receiving 20 Gy, where is that point on the DVH. Maybe they would ask how to interpolate between values in a table.

The more complicated stuff (writing a deformable image registration program, Monte Carlo simulations, biologically equivalent dose calculations, etc.) is usually left up to the medical physicists.