Better Healthcare Technology Foundation – Medical physics, biomedical engineering and associated sciences.
Stereotactic Radiotherapy is an advanced external beam radiotherapy technique. It differs to most other external beam radiotherapy in that it delivers a focused higher dose to a small tumour target……….Read More
Join up now! Diagnostic medical imaging is becoming more routinely used in radiotherapy, from planning to response assessment. The Medical Image Registration Special Interest Group (MIRSIG) is a new focus group formed by the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM). It’s open to all interested parties Read more…
A practice that has been in place for over 70 years is changing! Due to significant reduction in radiation doses from technological advances and an increase understanding of radiation risk, experts in the field are now recommending that gonadal and foetal shielding should no longer be used as routine practice. Read more…
Personalised medicine or individualised therapy is an approach that was greatly advocated over the last decade and remains the leitmotif in the forthcoming years. The “one size fits all” system that used to dominate the world of radiotherapy and oncology is no more an accepted way of treatment……….Read More
Mini C-arm fluoroscopy is used to assist the surgeon to implant metallic wires and plates when re-setting broken bones. Staff are protected from the main primary beam passing through the patient. But there is a measurable radiation exposure scattered in all other directions around the patient. ……Read More
Celebrating International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP) Professor Alun Beddoe (“Alun”) was born in Barry, Wales on 22 April 1945. As his parents moved locally and then globally, Alun attended Stocksfield primary school in Northumberland, England, before moving to Te Awamutu in New Zealand……. Read More
The Foundation is proud to be involved in the #ModelLinac project; – the design, creation, launch and distribution of an innovative model lego mini linac machine, officially unveiled at the EPSM conference in October 2019. The model linac has been developed in two formats: – a health provider model and Read more…
To learn a little bit more about tools of artificial intelligence, read this second article written by the 2019 Better Healthcare Technology most viewed author, Nicholas Hindley. Do it unsupervised!………..Read more..
Stories about past pioneers has proved to be a popular following on the Better Healthcare Technology website. Our article for this issue is about another leader from Western Australia. John Leo Black was appointed to establish a brand new nuclear medicine department at the Perth Medical centre, Sir Charles Gairdner Read more…
As an example of how last week’s APSIG Beachside Fundraising event can assist our volunteer assignments, read about the valuable work of ……. Abdarrahman Ceylan in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
