But medical physics is also involved in treatments as well as imaging, for example radiation therapy or proton beam therapy which are used to treat cancer.
On the other hand, radiation can also be harnessed in radiation therapy, which is a common treatment for cancer, so that understanding of radiobiology can help mitigate against and treat illnesses.
And he sees the greatest use for it outside of particle physics, in industry and medicine, where particle accelerators are used for things like electron therapy, a kind of radiation therapy that's used on some cancers.