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If you missed listening to the lecture 4, Summer 2022 webinar presented by Associate/Professor Megan Hyun PhD, then click here to watch it …..
Date: Monday Nov 28 2022 Times: NZ: 3pm (NZDT); NSW/VIC/TAS: 1pm (AEDT); QLD: 12md (AEST); SA: 12:30pm (ACDT); Darwin: 11:30am (ACST); WA: 10am (AWST) To join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82558997430?pwd=ZjBDUncvOVlpZ0lKTm44NFF5TW5qZz09 Don’t miss yet another Better Healthcare Technology Foundation outstanding webinar topic that looks into future applied science in medicine. Presented by Read more…
Matching bone, muscle and lung densities In Part 3/3, Dr Rance Tino, explores two 3D printing techniques utilised at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Physical Sciences Department. The techniques print object’s achievable as Hounsfield Units (HU) that emulate lung and bone densities for Computed Tomography (CT) imaging studies. Rance Brennan Read more…
Innovation Award In this month’s scientific release, the 2021 ACPSEM Innovation Award winner, Dr Rance Tino, continues his 3D print series. His research work involved segmenting CT datasets to extract soft-, bone-, and lung-tissue volumes. By developing a low-cost 3D printer, he was able to manufacture simulated anthropomorphic phantoms for Read more…
It’s not an exaggeration to say that machine learning has taken the world by storm in the last ten years. Researchers are rapidly adopting machine learning in clinics for various medical applications, including diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. Machine learning (particularly deep learning) is well suited to automate many of the Read more…
The first 3D printing technique was reported by the Japanese inventor, Dr Hideo Kodama, which is a process that utilizes ultraviolet (UV) light to cure photo-sensitive liquid and which then becomes a solid 3D object. Charles Hull, founder of 3D Systems, later patented this technique in 1986, calling it Stereolithography Read more…
The ABC News Report, 14 March 2022: Members may not have seen the recent television coverage of ‘3D Printing for Cancer Patients’ at the Herston Biofabrication Institute. Scott Crowe’s article, 3D printing for radiotherapy, published in our Better Healthcare Technology website (July, 2021), is a member of this research group. Read more…
The goal of prostate radiation therapy The goal of radiotherapy when treating patients with localised prostate cancer, is to distribute sufficient radiation dose to eradicate the tumour and as little as possible to all parts of the surrounding healthy tissues. Clinicians want to make sure that enough radiation dose reaches 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
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…
