Imaging in Medicine: A different way of seeing.

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…

Call for submissions: ACPSEM and Better Healthcare Technology Foundation Awards

Consideration for these 2023 Awards are now open. The first winner of the Better Healthcare Technology Foundation – Clinical Leadership Award was announced last year. The Foundation is pleased to offer this as one of the annual achievement Awards For more information and details before applying, click on: BHTF and Read more…

Notice: 2023 ACPSEM and Better Healthcare Technology Foundation Awards

Consideration for these 2023 Awards are now open. The first winner of the Better Healthcare Technology Foundation – Clinical Leadership Award was announced last year. The Foundation is pleased to offer this as one of the annual achievement Awards For more information and details before applying, click on: BHTF and Read more…

Notice: Malware Breach

To Better Healthcare Technology Foundation (BHTF Insight) Supporters, On the 30 May – 1 June, website security investigations with our website host indicated that our BHTF website was malware infected by a recent security breach of one of the sub-programs. The site was immediately shutdown to protect our viewers from Read more…

National Total Body PET: Webinar Series

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…

Long Axial Field of View Positron Emission Tomography

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…

BHTF Website Journal Report

Our Vision: Access to better healthcare technology for everyone The BHTF Website Journal Report (2018 – 2022) Dear supporters, I am pleased to report that, at its meeting held on 20 February 2023, the Foundation Board Directors reviewed and approved my 4-year BHTF Website Journal report (November 2018 to December 2022). I hope Read more…

The 2022 Distinguished Services Award

Previous winners include:     John  Coles, Lee  Collins, John  Heggie, John  Drew, Robert Fitchew, Lyn Oliver, Ian Smith, Howell Round, Tomas Kron,  Eva Bezak, Ian (Donald) McLean, Sean  Geoghegan and Richard Dove This year’s 2022 winner is………….click for more

APSIG Port Moresby assignment, 2023

In recognition of its technical support history to the Lae cancer centre, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) invited APSIG to assess PNG’s readiness and ability to comply with IAEA radiation safety and regulatory requirements necessary to receive a new Co-60 source. It included assessing the existing radiotherapy Read more…