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My name is Anthony I'm a third year biophysics candidate at York University
It starts with curiosity, how can we use this
and that's exactly what physics is. Physics is curiosity.
so I always had a love for numbers, things like that
By doing the biophysics program, I actually found that
perhaps I wanted to do medical research with a strong emphasis on physics and imaging technology
So what really made me want to go towards the imaging technology
was for my second year biophysics course, biophysics 2090,
and we had a presentation done by Dr. Scott Menary
on Fermilab
and he was explaining to us how MRI's or CT Scan's,
PET scans, they were all actually old
physics experiments, so MRI
is actually just a different version of MMR, which is
nuclear magnetic resonance. A PET Scan stands for positron emission
tomography
which uses anti-matter to find gamma rays
and depending on the deflection
you can tell exactly what is going on in the body
You want to see if I can perhaps make a physics experiment more clinical, more
useful
and because of that presentation,
because of coming to York, if you really look at the grander scope of things
I found something that I'm
truly passionate about, something
I'm truly interested in and I don't know if I would have been able
to do it without York