Archives: History of ANZ health profession
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…
Breaking News: In a recent article published, it reported on a 2018 startup proposal. The engineer interviewed, Jonathan Rothberg, refers to the work of David Robinson and George Kossof’s world-first in 1961. That past major invention by Robinson and Kossof may possibly be reinvented and become a future life changing, innovative device called Read more…
