Diagnostic Imaging equipment in medicine.
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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…
A Historical 1967 ABC Interview Gerald Stone with David Robinson Dear members, Dr Jack Jellins AM has sent details of a historic news report. The Sydney located Commonwealth Acoustics Laboratory was in the ’60s an internationally leading research and development centre for new, innovative medical ultrasound devices. Visualising an unborn Read more…
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Breaking News When prostate cancer spreads throughout the body, and particularly to the bones, it is far more difficult to treat. Australian clinicians and researchers, with the assistance and fundraising efforts of ANZUP, the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and Movember, are at the forefront of using a precision pharmaceutical 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…
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
PoCUS is an ultrasound examination performed at remote sites from an imaging department for emergency trauma patients when there’s no ultrasound staff available…….. Read More..
Medical ultrasound falls into two distinct categories: diagnostic and therapeutic. This issue explains how the ultrasound technique works as a non-invasive medical imaging or treatment tool for a wide range of clinical and surgical applications…………..Read more…
.Ultrasound imaging is an excellent non-invasive, safe and painless mode to examine patients. The technique involves scanning the patient’s body with sound waves to produce an image. ………..more
