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Paediatric imaging protocols should be carefully optimised to maintain the desired image quality for the delivered radiation dose. To do this, a specially designed paediatric chest phantom has been constructed to optimise CT chest examinations for infants. Seonaid Rodgers BSc MSc Medical Technology and Physics Department, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Read more…
With the permission of IBUS and the IBUS Breast Imaging School and Professor Jeffrey Bamber, the Better Healthcare Technology Foundation posts this video entitled “Optimising Ultrasound Images”. Jeffrey C. Bamber Professor of Physics Applied to Medicine, Head of Ultrasound and Optical Imaging Physics, the Institute of Cancer Research, London Honorary Read more…
With a desire to provide new treatment options for ventricular tachycardia patients with high-risk features, recent early data has suggested that a cardiology and radiotherapy collaboration may provide a viable option. Initial experiences with cardiac SABR have shown promising results and the collection of further data will help drive the Read more…
Having spent over 50 years of work providing healthcare for cancer patients, I suddenly found myself on the receiving end. Unexpected cancer had thrust me into emergency surgery. It required some immediate skilled surgical and nurse expertise to treat and take me back on the road to recovery. Read more……. Read more…
An electronic portal imaging device (EPID) is routinely fitted as a radiotherapy linear accelerator accessory. The EPID can be used to verify the multi-leaf collimator (MLC) leaf positions and other quality assurance (QA) type tasks. EPID-based MLC has been extensively studied for position error detection of large fields and using Read more…
Researchers working in the Florey Node of the National Imaging Facility (NIF), are participating in the Australian Epilepsy Project (AEP). AEP aims to change the lives of people living with epilepsy by: reducing uncertainty surrounding diagnosis; and fast-tracking the path to optimal treatment. AEP organisers intend to do this by using a combination Read more…
The success of Stereotactic Radiation Surgery (SRS) and Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiation Therapy (SABR) techniques depends critically on having an adequate collection and algorithmic handling of the image data describing the patient body and organ motion. …Read more…….
Breathing causes organs to move How do you treat a moving target with an X-ray beam? Especially when it is a lung tumour moving while the patient breathes? Often the treatment targets are small and the planned dose distributions have steep gradients with potentially very high doses delivered in a small Read more…
Cancer Council Australia lists lung cancer as one of the five most commonly diagnosed cancers. It has the poorest 5-year survival cure rate in the group, of 17%. Whether it be by chemotherapy, surgery, or radiotherapy, there are medical and technical difficulties in treating lung cancer patients……. Read More
By 12th June 2020, COVID-19 had infected over 7.6M individuals and resulted in more than 420,000 deaths. High resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of the lung is the front-line tool for monitoring COVID-19 appearances. …….Read more……..
