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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…
Researchers and patients alike are benefiting from a new imaging technology called ‘Long Axial Field of View (FOV) Positron Emission Tomography’, also known as ‘Total-Body PET (TB-PET)’. This technology advance enables molecular imaging studies to be performed at ultrahigh sensitivity, i.e. an order of magnitude or more higher sensitivity than Read more…
Our Vision: Access to better healthcare technology for everyone The BHTF Website Journal Report (2018 – 2022) Dear supporters, I am pleased to report that, at its meeting held on 20 February 2023, the Foundation Board Directors reviewed and approved my 4-year BHTF Website Journal report (November 2018 to December 2022). I hope Read more…
Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) is commonly used to evaluate the radiation dose delivered to target structures and normal organs in radionuclide therapy (RNT). SPECT imaging is hindered by poor spatial resolution, making it difficult to accurately quantify the dose delivered to target cancer lesions. This has, in part, Read more…
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…
Palliative external beam radiotherapy plays an important role in the palliation of symptoms such as pain and bleeding caused by incurable cancers. Despite this, approximately 1/4 to 1/3 of patients do not receive symptom relief and for the ones that do respond, symptoms can return requiring further treatment …… Read Read more…
MRI and John Mallard: The Complete 8 Chapters Despite how significant the R&D that John Mallard’s 1980 Aberdeen University physics and engineering group achieved in building the first clinical total-body MRI machine, international professional recognition was not received with any substance at that time. It took another 36 years after 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…
The 2003 Nobel Prize was very controversial and there were many wild claims, counter claims and questions asked as to why scientists with significant direct patient related MRI achievements (such as the MRI whole-body diagnostic imaging tool for cancer patients) were not considered. Like many, I wondered why wasn’t Professor Read more…
