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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…
In Parts 1-5 of this MRI story, it describes how the discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) evolved into being a diagnostic tool for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of biological samples and eventually mice. The 2003 winners of the Nobel prize was based on this work. But who was the Read more…
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…
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…
Part 2. This story attempts to review and collate the many references and websites covering the pathway to clinical MRI. It is hoped it will provide the reader a balanced story of the evolutionary events that occurred and to appreciate how so many leading physical scientists, life scientists, physicists, engineers Read more…
In Memory of: John Mallard OBE, FRSE, FREng, FIPEM, FIUPESM (14 January 1927 – 25 February 2021) The late Professor John Mallard played a vital role in making it possible to use magnetic resonance to obtain whole-body images for the detection of diseases in patients. This story describes in detail how Read more…
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 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
