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I would like to know about postgraduate programmes and a career in medical physics.
Medical physics is a branch of applied physics concerning the application of physics to medicine. It generally concerns physics as applied to medical imaging and radiotherapy, although a medical physicist may work in many other areas of healthcare.
Medical physics is the application of physics to problems involving human health. Important developments in this field hold promise for improvement in diagnosis and understanding of disease, and in the application of high technology to patient care.
Examples include the employment of high energy photon and electron beams for cancer therapy, invention of the computed tomographic (CT) scanner, and more recently, development of the magnetic resonance (MR) imager.
Currently, there is a shortage of physicists who can bridge the gap between the traditional pure and applied sciences and clinical application.
Medical physicists are concerned with three primary areas of activity: clinical service and consultation, research and development, and teaching. Clinically, medical physicists are called upon to contribute scientific advice and resources to solve physical problems arising in radiological medical physics. Medical physics research typically involves development of new instrumentation and technology, development of new medical diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, and tests using existing technologies.
I am interested in an M.Sc. theoretical computer science course.
Theoretical computer science is the collection of topics of computer science that focuses on the more abstract, logical and mathematical aspects of computing such as the theory of computation, analysis of algorithms and semantics of programming languages. Although it is not itself a single topic in itself, its practitioners form a distinct subgroup within computer science researchers.
As research and development drives Information Technology growth, you would be having placement opportunities in R & D departments. P.S.G. College of Technology has introduced this new course from this year.
The programme includes two internships each of six months duration, one in the 7th semester and the other in the 10th semester, which will enable students to have industrial and R & D exposures.
What is language technology? Which institutes offer postgraduate programme in the subject?
Language technology is often called Human Language Technology (HLT) or Natural Language Processing (NLP).
It consists of computational linguistics (CL) and speech technology as its core but also includes many application-oriented aspects of them.
Language technology is closely connected to computer science and general linguistics. ER & DCI Institute of Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, offers a one-year postgraduate diploma course in language technology.
This course aims at addressing the growing manpower demand in the field of language technology and localization enabling Information Technology and e-governance initiatives in Indian languages.
JAYAPRAKASH GANDHI
Email: jpgandhi@gmail.com
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