COVER LETTER

I am Gordillo Olivera Carlos and I am from Argentina. I have a degree in physics

obtained in Balseiro Institute (San Carlos de Bariloche. Argentina) but in this year I am doing
the master in medical physics. I will finish it in December.
I am looking for a post-degree because I want to increase my scientific work as a
medical physicist. As a master’s project I am researching in magnetic resonance: I am
studying two quantitative techniques called “mapping” and “feature tracking” applied to
myocardial diseases. The objective is to development and standardization to study the
diagnostic power of those techniques and compare this with other diagnostic studies.
As a part of my master I took Nuclear Medicine as a subject, where I learned the
fundamental principles of the nuclear diagnostic, the different types of studies (RMN, CT,
PET, SPECT, PET-CT, PET-MR), what kind of information can we get, how to do those
studies in general, how the machine works, the analysis of the absorbed dose (PET, CT,
SPECT) , their nuclear radioprotection and quality accurate. In particular I worked with
phantoms with Tc-99m, Ge-68 and FDG.
Another subject I took is Radiotherapy where I learned the physics principles of the
radiant therapy. I learned how the linear accelerator looks like (as a machine) and how it
works. I know how to calculate the absorbed dose for one specific conformed field using the
TAR and D/Psi formalism for Co-60 and specified energy photons (6 MV and 18 MV in
particular). I have studied the principles of brachytherapy, the use of ionization chambers and
the calculus of bunkers using international protocols. In addition I studied one more time
topics related to the radioprotection.
Related to nuclear medicine I took Diagnostic Imaging where I learned the physics
behind the formation of one diagnostic imagen using some technique (PET, RMN, CT,
SPECT). I believe that this subject was one of the most important because I learned to analyze
and process one medical image to extract the most quantity of information. I used software
like ImageJ, Corel Draw, Matlab and some algorithm designed in C.
I am very familiar with the analysis of one phenomenon, so I have some good skills in
the design of one experimental method to obtain information data and analyze that
information to extract conclusions using different softwares (Origin, ImageJ, Excel, Tracker,
Gnuplot, Graphmatica, Maple). I believe that the theoretic description of the phenomenon is
important too, so I think that is a very good scientific practice to study the theory if it is
available or try to develop a theoretical model instead. During my 5 years in the degree I took
experimental physics classes where I worked in geometric and physical optic, low
temperature, physical properties of matter, superconductivity, growing of thin films and their
magnetic and electrical properties for example.
For the previous information I think that I am a good candidate to apply for the
available position. I think it is very important for my scientific career to know others
countries, learn news investigation skills and meet with other people. Please take the time to
review my resume and I would welcome the opportunity to meet with you in one personal
interview using Skype or a telephonic call.
Best regards.
Gordillo Olivera Carlos Nicolás

Email: gordillocarlosn@gmail.com Telephone: +549 264 4124733