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Winter 2023 Topical Lecture Dr Michael R. Jackson PhD Consultant Paediatric Radiologist Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Edinburgh Date: Monday June 26 2023 Times: NZ: 6pm (NZST); QLD/NSW/VIC/TAS: 4pm (AEST); SA/NT: 3:30pm (ACST);WA: 2pm (AWST); 7am (GMT) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87986834126?pwd=ei84b2ZsMEU0ZDgrMTB3WnE0eTdRZz09 About the Speaker Dr Michael R. Jackson Read more…
The Sydney Imaging Core Research Facility at The University of Sydney, in partnership with Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD) and the National Imaging Facility (NIF), has established a Total Body PET facility in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Royal North Shore Hospital. The Better Healthcare Technology Foundation follows NIF newsletters with the intention of passing Read more…
This work was to develop a reconstruction method for theranostic dosimetry by improving the spatial resolution and noise properties of reconstructed SPECT images (SPECTRE). Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) is commonly used to evaluate the radiation dose delivered to target structures and normal organs in radionuclide therapy (RNT). But Read more…
Researchers and patients alike are benefiting from a new imaging technology called ‘Long Axial Field of View (FOV) Positron Emission Tomography’, also known as ‘Total-Body PET (TB-PET)’. This technology advance enables molecular imaging studies to be performed at ultrahigh sensitivity, i.e. an order of magnitude or more higher sensitivity than Read more…
Date: Monday Nov 28 2022 Times: NZ: 3pm (NZDT); NSW/VIC/TAS: 1pm (AEDT); QLD: 12md (AEST); SA: 12:30pm (ACDT); Darwin: 11:30am (ACST); WA: 10am (AWST) To join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82558997430?pwd=ZjBDUncvOVlpZ0lKTm44NFF5TW5qZz09 Don’t miss yet another Better Healthcare Technology Foundation outstanding webinar topic that looks into future applied science in medicine. Presented by Read more…
Palliative external beam radiotherapy plays an important role in the palliation of symptoms such as pain and bleeding caused by incurable cancers. Despite this, approximately 1/4 to 1/3 of patients do not receive symptom relief and for the ones that do respond, symptoms can return requiring further treatment …… Read Read more…
Matching bone, muscle and lung densities In Part 3/3, Dr Rance Tino, explores two 3D printing techniques utilised at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Physical Sciences Department. The techniques print object’s achievable as Hounsfield Units (HU) that emulate lung and bone densities for Computed Tomography (CT) imaging studies. Rance Brennan Read more…
Deep learning models are used for various radiation oncology tasks to improve efficiency, increase accuracy and reduce errors. For example, these models may be used for: outlining organs at risk on CT or MRI image data; predicting patient-specific quality assurance results; developing novel dose calculation algorithms [1]; and Comparing proton Read more…
Dear members, Re: Eligible periods for PhD Awards It has just become apparent that the eligible dates shown on the betterhealthcaretechnology.org website from 2021 to now were not updated from previous years. That has meant any candidates who received their PhD award between July 2020 to December 2020 were ineligible Read more…
It’s not an exaggeration to say that machine learning has taken the world by storm in the last ten years. Researchers are rapidly adopting machine learning in clinics for various medical applications, including diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. Machine learning (particularly deep learning) is well suited to automate many of the Read more…
