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Scientia Professor Nigel Lovell is currently Head of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW. He works in the areas of bionics, biomonitoring and physiological modelling. He was recently appointed inaugural Director of the newly formed Tyree Foundation Institute of Health Engineering (https://ihealthe.unsw.edu.au). The Institute’s vision is: To create a transformational engine of discovery, innovation 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…
The Better Healthcare Technology Foundation supports the National Imaging Facility. For their November 2020 Newsletter, we recommend you click on….. …..More
Having spent over 50 years of work providing healthcare for cancer patients, I suddenly found myself on the receiving end. Unexpected cancer had thrust me into emergency surgery. It required some immediate skilled surgical and nurse expertise to treat and take me back on the road to recovery. Read more……. Read more…
Breathing causes organs to move How do you treat a moving target with an X-ray beam? Especially when it is a lung tumour moving while the patient breathes? Often the treatment targets are small and the planned dose distributions have steep gradients with potentially very high doses delivered in a small Read more…
Cancer Council Australia lists lung cancer as one of the five most commonly diagnosed cancers. It has the poorest 5-year survival cure rate in the group, of 17%. Whether it be by chemotherapy, surgery, or radiotherapy, there are medical and technical difficulties in treating lung cancer patients……. Read More
By 12th June 2020, COVID-19 had infected over 7.6M individuals and resulted in more than 420,000 deaths. High resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of the lung is the front-line tool for monitoring COVID-19 appearances. …….Read more……..
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…
Cancer treatment typically involves systemic therapy such as chemotherapy, targeted therapy or immunotherapy, in combination with a local therapy. Local therapy such as surgery, radiation therapy or other energy ablation treatment options are used. For small tumours, stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) is an emerging standard of care. SABR is a non-invasive Read more…
Through the auspices of the British Institute of Radiology (BIR), representatives from various UK radiological professional bodies convened to consider the evidence-base for patient contact shielding. They have since produced a document containing their “consensus of opinion as to what constitutes best and agreed practice.” The aim is to improve Read more…
