Radiation Calibration Laboratory (UWRCL)

We provide calibration services for ionizing radiation measurement instrumentation available in the medical or health physics community.

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Research (UWMRRC)

We focus on the science of metrology as applied to Radiation Therapy Physics. The laboratory has been instrumental in the development of several methodologies adopted as national standards.

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Education

The UWMRRC supports 10-15 graduate students in the Department of Medical Physics through calibration services revenue and funded research projects.

The focus of the laboratory’s research is on fundamental ionizing radiation metrology in radiation therapy physics.

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Latest News

May 12, 2025

Recent Graduates

There are five cal lab graduates finishing in the Spring of 2025 with their PhD. From left to right in this photo are Jacomb Lambeck, Larry DeWerd (advisor), Tommy Stasko, Jocelyn Jackson, Karsten Wake, and Wesley Culberson (advisor). We are excited to see where their lives will take them. Four of them are starting CAMPEP …

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September 12, 2024

EGS Course next summer

The developers of the EGS Monte Carlo code will be returning to Madison in the summer of 2026 to teach a Monte Carlo course. They were here previously in the summer of 2023 and are shown here in the photograph where they went sailing with UWADCL director, Wesley Culberson. They will be in town for …

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September 12, 2024

Ash Khan joining lab

In July 2025, a new faculty member will be joining the Cal Lab. Everyone is excited for one of our own graduates, Assistant Professor Ash Khan, to join us. He is currently in his therapy residency at the Northwestern University Medical Center and will join after he graduates from this program. His interests include Flash …

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September 7, 2024

Proton Measurements in Chicago

Graduate students Karsten Wake and Ryan Gardner, accompanied by faculty member Wesley Culberson, traveled to the Northwestern University Proton Center in Warrenville, IL to acquire measurements for a research project. The team travelled and perform diode dosimetry measurements on a Saturday in September, 2024. Valuable data was collected and will hopefully be published soon.  The …

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August 12, 2024

New students joining the Cal Lab

We are excited to have three new graduate students join the lab in the Fall of 2024! …

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May 12, 2025

Recent Graduates

There are five cal lab graduates finishing in the Spring of 2025 with their PhD. From left to right in this photo are Jacomb Lambeck, Larry DeWerd (advisor), Tommy Stasko, Jocelyn Jackson, Karsten Wake, and Wesley Culberson (advisor). We are excited to see where their lives will take them. Four of them are starting CAMPEP …

Read More >

September 12, 2024

EGS Course next summer

The developers of the EGS Monte Carlo code will be returning to Madison in the summer of 2026 to teach a Monte Carlo course. They were here previously in the summer of 2023 and are shown here in the photograph where they went sailing with UWADCL director, Wesley Culberson. They will be in town for …

Read More >

September 12, 2024

Ash Khan joining lab

In July 2025, a new faculty member will be joining the Cal Lab. Everyone is excited for one of our own graduates, Assistant Professor Ash Khan, to join us. He is currently in his therapy residency at the Northwestern University Medical Center and will join after he graduates from this program. His interests include Flash …

Read More >

September 7, 2024

Proton Measurements in Chicago

Graduate students Karsten Wake and Ryan Gardner, accompanied by faculty member Wesley Culberson, traveled to the Northwestern University Proton Center in Warrenville, IL to acquire measurements for a research project. The team travelled and perform diode dosimetry measurements on a Saturday in September, 2024. Valuable data was collected and will hopefully be published soon.  The …

Read More >

August 12, 2024

New students joining the Cal Lab

We are excited to have three new graduate students join the lab in the Fall of 2024! …

Read More >

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