Medical Physics Consultants, Inc.

Your outsourced team of in-house medical physicists

We develop long term relationships with our hospitals and imaging centers by providing local consultants, training courses and industry leading expertise.

Medical Physics Assets

With the wealth of commonsense Medical Physics experience, MPC has a long history of developing concise regulatory compliant and clinically beneficial forms for all sections of Diagnostic Imaging.

Medical Physics Consultants, Inc.

Nuclear Medicine Forms

MPC’s knowledge of stringent Nuclear Medicine regulatory requirements and exacting clinical documentation has evolved into a compendium of useful and required forms.

Nuclear Forms
Medical Physics Consultants, Inc.

Diagnostic Radiology Forms

With the continuing evolution of Diagnostic Imaging in Radiology and Cardiology, MPC develops forms for regulatory and clinical compliance.

Diagnostic Forms

Latest News

  • CMS Approves MR Safety Codes

    Magnetic Resonance Imaging can be very tricky these days with a dynamic environment of revolutionary technology.  What is MR compatible?  What is MR safe?  The answer can be completely different depending on the age or magnetic field strength of your scanner(s)! How much time and effort does your team need to dedicate to determining device […]

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  • MPC Employee Receives Prestigious Award

      Recently one of MPC’s illustrious physicists (Sharon Updike, MS, DABR) was honored at the spring meeting of the Central Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (CCSMMI).  Sharon was presented with the Steven M. Pinsky Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor the CCSNMMI can bestow upon a member. This distinguished service […]

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  • Radium-223, Lutetium -177, Gallium-68, Copper-64, Actinium-225, Yttrium-90, Oh my!

    What an exciting time to be involved in nuclear medicine. After 20 plus years of mostly the same products and radioisotopes being utilized in nuclear medicine a whole new group of products and radioisotopes have been or are in the process of being approved by the FDA. While some of these products have been used […]

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  • SNMMI warns of Omicron’s impact on PET/CT scans

    Eighteen months ago the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) developed a task force to monitor and provide guidance to the imaging community with respect to COVID-19 infections manifesting in various imaging modalities, primarily FDG PET/CT or PET/MR. With the most recent variant, omicron, an unusual imaging pattern has been observed in the […]

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  • Do I Need to Purchase a Medium Sized MR Phantom?

    In the June issue of ACR’s Quality and Safety eNews, it was announced the ACR MRI Accreditation Program (MRAP) has developed a medium-sized phantom. ACR’s senior advisor for medical physics also shared important details about the medium phantom with the medical physics community in the March-April issue of the AAPM Newsletter (see page 25). The […]

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  • Need Help Deciding to Discontinue Routine Shielding of Patient Gonads?

    Did you know the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) has developed a full program to assist your team in transitioning to the discontinuation of routine shielding of patient gonads?  When you decide the time is right, visit the AAPM CARES site for a full set of resources including training modules (with credit available) […]

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  • NRC Publishes Information Notice (IN) Regarding Exposure to Radiation

    Information Notice 2021-02: Recent Issues Associated with Monitoring Occupational Exposure to Radiation From Licensed and Unlicensed Radiation Sources was released on August 4, 2021.  This IN describes recurring findings from NRC inspections where licensees were only monitoring dosimetry reports for high exposures.  Several instances were observed where users were not wearing their badges correctly, or […]

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  • ACR Announces ACRedit Plus

    The American College of Radiology will soon release ACRedit Plus, an updated accreditation database with a user-friendly interface and enhanced features making imaging accreditation more streamlined. This new process will be available for all imaging modalities except radiation oncology. Learn more about the changes from the ACR here: Keep ‘er Movin’

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  • SNMMI Statement: The Effect of COVID-19 Vaccination on FDG PET/CT

    March 30, 2021 FDG-avid reactive lymphadenopathy on PET/CT has been reported in patients following COVID-19 vaccinations.1 Reactive lymphadenopathy has been reported in up to 16% of the patients following COVID-19 vaccination with the mRNA (Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna) vaccines; this side effect has not been reported to date with the AdV vector vaccine (Janssen/Johnson & Johnson).2-5 Some […]

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  • Important Safety Notification Regarding Patients Undergoing MRI Exams

    On behalf of the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA*) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) equipment manufacturers MPC is posting this message to assist in getting the word out. Please feel free to translate into local languages as necessary. The COVID19 pandemic impacts the way diagnostic imaging examinations are performed. Particularly, patients may need to wear […]

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We have found the services of MPC vital in meeting our accreditation and regulatory obligations for annual and acceptance testing for all our imaging equipment. MPC has demonstrated to be a cost effective service of providing qualified medical physicists for all our nuclear medicine and diagnostic imaging machine needs for over the past ten years.

Anonymous RSO

We have been using the services of MPC for years and appreciate the extra care and effort they provide to ensure our equipment is safe and meets the standards for quality to operate legally. The physicists are knowledgeable and approachable. They have a genuine concern for our success and compliance with governing regulations.

Lynne