Webinar: 3 “Ds” of Nanomedicine – Diagnostics, Delivery and Devices

If you missed the live webinar, then don’t miss this opportunity to view it now!  Summer 2022 Topical Lecture  Webinar: 3 “Ds” of Nanomedicine – Diagnostics, Delivery and Devices Please Note: Unfortunately Professor Wojciech Chrzanowski’s live presentation could not be included in this video due to copyright limitations. We hope Read more…

ACPSEM Awards 2022

Submissions for the 2022 Awards are now open. You are invited to submit nominations for the 2022 Awards (posted on betterhealthcaretechnology.org) The ACPSEM awards recognise achievements and contributions made by medical physicists, biomedical engineers and radiopharmaceutical scientists in advancing services and professional standards for the benefit and protection of the Read more…

3D printing for cancer patients

The ABC News Report, 14 March 2022: Members may not have seen the recent television coverage of ‘3D Printing for Cancer Patients’ at the Herston Biofabrication Institute. Scott Crowe’s article, 3D printing for radiotherapy, published in our Better Healthcare Technology website (July, 2021), is a member of this research group. Read more…

3D dose prescribing for prostate cancer therapy

The goal of prostate radiation therapy The goal of radiotherapy when treating patients with localised prostate cancer, is to distribute sufficient radiation dose to eradicate the tumour and as little as possible to all parts of the surrounding healthy tissues. Clinicians want to make sure that enough radiation dose reaches Read more…

My brush with fame

Professor John Mallard First ACPSEM Honorary Fellow, Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine Part 4. By the beginning of the 1960s, some Australian and New Zealand hospitals had established physics departments (similar to those in UK) to provide scientific services for radiotherapy, radiology and (the then very Read more…

Immunotherapy and Radiotherapy for Cancer

More than half of all cancer patients receive radiotherapy as part of their treatment and, for patients  receiving radiotherapy alone, the average cure rate is 40%. Cancer cells are killed by X-ray ionisation of the DNA and other associated biological effects. But, under certain circumstances, the radiation exposure can also Read more…

The first NMR biological image?

Part 3: When asked about when he first thought up his NMR technique, he said that it was long before his breakthrough work at Stony Brook University. It was whilst having an eat-out dinner as a student researcher. He was studying then at the University of Pittsburgh and Mellon Institute of Industrial Read more…