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Medical Physics Point/Counterpoint

The Point/Counterpoint feature of Medical Physics was introduced in 1998 and this year is celebrating 10 years of success.  Since 1998, every issue of Medical Physics has contained a Point/Counterpoint discussion of a controversial issue in medical physics, and this discussion is usually one of the more frequently downloaded articles in the issue. 

In recognition of the 10th anniversary of this journal feature, a compendium of Point/Counterpoint discussions has been compiled and is now available here.  The compendium has been assembled by Colin Orton, immediate past-editor of Medical Physics, with some assistance from me.  It is interesting to note how relevant these discussions are to today’s practice of medical physics.  

I recommend the Point/Counterpoint compendium to readers of Medical Physics.  I believe you will find them enlightening as well as entertaining. 

Bill Hendee, Editor
Medical Physics

Medical Physics is the scientific journal of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine
William R. Hendee, Editor
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