Editing Medical physics (section)

=== Therapeutic medical physics===
Radiation therapeutic physics is also known as [[radiotherapy]] physics or [[radiation oncologist]] physics.
The majority of medical physicists currently working in the US, Canada, and some western countries are of this group. A radiation therapy physicist typically deals with [[Linear particle accelerator#Medical linacs|linear accelerator]] (Linac) systems and kilovoltage x-ray treatment units on a daily basis, as well as other modalities such as [[TomoTherapy]], [[gamma knife]], [[Cyberknife (device)|Cyberknife]], [[proton therapy]], and [[brachytherapy]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Advances in kilovoltage x-ray beam dosimetry|journal=Physics in Medicine and Biology|volume=59|number=6|year=2014|vauthors=Hill R, Healy B, Holloway L, Kuncic Z, Thwaites D, Baldock C |doi=10.1088/0031-9155/59/6/R183|pmid=24584183|bibcode = 2014PMB....59R.183H|pages=R183–231|s2cid=18082594 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Back to the future: the history and development of the clinical linear accelerator|vauthors=Thwaites DI, Tuohy JB |year=2006|volume=51|issue=13|pmid=16790912|doi=10.1088/0031-9155/51/13/R20|journal=Physics in Medicine and Biology|bibcode = 2006PMB....51R.343T|pages=R343–62|s2cid=7672187 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=The history of tomotherapy|author=Mackie, T R |year=2006|journal= Physics in Medicine and Biology|volume=51|number=13|doi=10.1088/0031-9155/51/13/R24|bibcode = 2006PMB....51R.427M|pmid=16790916|pages=R427–53|s2cid=31523227 }}</ref>
The academic and research side of therapeutic physics may encompass fields such as [[boron neutron capture therapy]], [[sealed source radiotherapy]], [[terahertz radiation]], high-intensity focused [[ultrasound]] (including [[lithotriptor|lithotripsy]]), [[optical radiation]] [[laser]]s, [[ultraviolet]] etc. including [[photodynamic therapy]], as well as [[nuclear medicine]] including [[unsealed source radiotherapy]], and [[photomedicine]], which is the use of light to treat and diagnose disease.