Welcome to Scope Online

Scope is the Magazine of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in medicine (IPEM). It is published four times a year and sent to all the Institute's members. If you are not a member and would like to subscribe, please contact the IPEM's office.

The new online version includes, features, tutorials, meeting reports and book reviews published in the Magazine. Most articles were written by IPEM members.

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Francis Duck has the third instalment in his series on the history of medical physics: "A book was published in Paris in 1824 entitled Traité élémentaire de physique générale et médicale. It was the first ever textbook for a course in medical physics. This is the story of the author, Pierre Pelletan, and of his battles to unite the academic disciplines of physics and medicine" [...]

Scott Brown continues the CEng theme from the previous issue of Scope and describes his route to accreditation [...]

Francis Duck will bring us a series of articles on the history of medical physics. In this first issue he covers the start of the subject and covers the period from 1779 to 1794 [...]

THE IPEM'S 15TH ANNUAL MEDICAL PHYSICS and Engineering Conference (MPEC) and AGM were held at Liverpool Hope University. Delegates were offered on-campus residences, right next to the lecture theatres, and the refectory which was extremely advantageous considering the tight schedule of the programme. Around 250 delegates attended this conference over 3 days. There were 99 proffered papers, 15 keynote lectures and 12 exhibitors [...]