Rationale and objectives: The goal of this study is to demonstrate how the teaching of radiology physics can be enhanced with the use of interactive scientific notebook software.
Methods: We used the scientific notebook software known as Project Jupyter, which is free, open-source, and available for the Macintosh, Windows, and Linux operating systems.
Results: We have created a scientific notebook that demonstrates multiple interactive teaching modules we have written for our residents using the Jupyter notebook system.
Conclusions: Scientific notebook software allows educators to create teaching modules in a form that combines text, graphics, images, data, interactive calculations, and image analysis within a single document. These notebooks can be used to build interactive teaching modules, which can help explain complex topics in imaging physics to residents.
Keywords: Physics; radiology education; scientific notebook software; simulation.
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