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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…
Advances in 3D print technologies and the development of easy-to-use computer-aided design solutions during the past two decades has provided a positive impact on the manufacturing of parts and components in the healthcare industry. The new 3D print technology enables health professionals to make………….Read more
The Better Healthcare Technology Foundation supports the National Imaging Facility. For their August 2021 Newsletter, we recommend you click on….. …..More Enjoy!
Not all tumours are solid. Mesothelioma, for example, is a cancer that grows in the mesothelium – the membrane surrounding the lungs. The spread of mesothelioma makes it difficult to target this cancer with a radiation beam without causing unwanted damage to the lungs and other vital healthy tissues. For Read more…
When an electric field is applied to living cells, their membrane suffers electrical stretch forces. Depending on the electric field amplitude and duration, the cell shape is deformed and free ions can be transported across the membrane. There are also additional osmotic forces and water leakage through the pore(s) formed. 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…
With a desire to provide new treatment options for ventricular tachycardia patients with high-risk features, recent early data has suggested that a cardiology and radiotherapy collaboration may provide a viable option. Initial experiences with cardiac SABR have shown promising results and the collection of further data will help drive the Read more…
