Tried our cryptic medical-physics word search? Here’s the solution

01 Mar 2023

How well do you know your medical physics? Here are the answers to our cryptic word search, created by Ian Randall.

Answers

Wireless put hit music in pronoun, killing cancer cells [RADIOTHERAPY]

Exposure measurement? Note sounds like beautiful proportion [DOSIMETRY]

Particle physicists rarely order tapas or nachos, initially [PROTON]

Röntgen’s discovery in complex rayon [XRAY]

Speakers’ gambit locates part of the body [STEREOTACTIC]

See inside my body? Even smarties back off [MRI]

Fudge portions are used in three-dimensional imaging [POSITRON]

Long-suffering hospital visitor [PATIENT]

Angular momentum pinches to the left [SPIN]

Cathode ray tube, for example, central to Kremlin accessories [LINAC]

Medical physics technique? I’m getting older without direction [IMAGING]

Slicing method put right? OMG, a trophy! [TOMOGRAPHY]

Use scant computed tomography procedure [CAT SCAN]

Sonogram is extremely stable [ULTRASOUND]

Bonobo lust conceals tissue equivalent [BOLUS]

We hear crow mountaintop is where protons stop travelling [BRAGG PEAK]

Tune your imager with spirit [PHANTOM]

Providing relief by cooking pie at villa [PALLIATIVE]

Dull American colour is absorbed unit [GRAY]

Norse god inside? That is I! [IODINE]

Turncoat trades France for a model, device discerns [DETECTOR]

Yeti’s suede, at its heart, is flesh [TISSUE]

Scheduling dose modelling [PLANNING]

Agent for difference [CONTRAST]

Surgery, detached, ejects gangster [CLINIC]

Bonus [the application of physics to healthcare]

FROM PHYSICSWORLD.COM    22/3/2023