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Heart-on-a-chip reveals impact of spaceflight on cardiac health
A heart-on-a-chip platform sent to the International Space Station reveals how 30 days in space alters heart muscle cells
RadCalc QA: ensuring safe and efficient radiotherapy throughout Australia
Cancer care provider GenesisCare is using LAP’s RadCalc platform to perform software-based quality assurance of all its radiotherapy treatment plans
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Gold nanoparticles could improve radiotherapy of pancreatic cancer
Irradiating tumours containing gold nanoparticles should enhance radiotherapy effectiveness while minimizing potential side effects
Could targeted alpha therapy help treat Alzheimer’s disease?
Researchers demonstrate that targeted alpha-particle treatments can reduce the level of amyloid-beta plaque in mouse brain tissues
Quantum sensors monitor brain development in children
This podcast explores how quantum technologies are revolutionizing medicine
Wearable PET scanner allows brain scans of moving patients
A helmet-like upright imaging device has potential to enable previously impossible neuroimaging studies
First patients treated using minibeam radiation therapy
Minibeam radiotherapy using a clinical orthovoltage unit successfully treats two patients
MR-guided radiotherapy: where are we now and what does the future hold?
Speakers at the recent AAPM Annual Meeting examined the clinical impact and future potential of MR-guided radiotherapy
Tuberculosis-specific PET tracer could enable more effective treatment
FDT-PET scans in animals show potential for tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment monitoring
Portable camera expands the applications of gamma imaging
The Seracam portable gamma camera could extend the use of nuclear medicine investigations beyond the constraints of larger fixed gamma camera systems
Robotic radiotherapy could ease treatment for eye disease
A single dose of stereotactic radiotherapy could reduce the number of eye injections needed to effectively control age-related macular degeneration
Lung images reveal how breathing distribution differs between the sexes
Electrical impedance tomography data demonstrate that ventilation is more evenly distributed in women than in men
Precision medicine: meet two medical physicists who are making it possible
Anna Barnes and Nicky Whilde explain how technological advances are enabling precision medicine
RadMachine unifies all machine QA and QC onto one streamlined platform
RadMachine software enables radiotherapy clinics and diagnostic centres to manage their quality assurance tasks on a single cloud-based platform
Low-frequency ultrasound triggers targeted drug delivery
Targeted release of drugs from ultrasound-sensitive nanocarriers could minimize side-effects associated with conventional medication
Oculomics: a window to the health of the body
Alistair Bounds explains the eye-screening technologies that can help us detect and monitor chronic diseases
SNMMI ‘Image of the Year’ visualizes the brain as never before
The NeuroEXPLORER brain PET scanner generates low noise and ultrahigh-resolution images of neuronal activity in the brain
Researchers build 0.05 T MRI scanner that produces diagnostic quality images
A low-cost, ultralow-field whole-body MRI scanner that doesn’t require shielding aims to close the global gap in MRI availability
Deep transfer learning detects six different cancers on PET/CT scans
A generalizable AI tool performs fully automated tumour segmentation on whole-body PET/CT images
Ultrasound patch continuously tracks blood flow in the brain
Wearable ultrasound patch enables volumetric mapping of the cerebral arteries and continuous monitoring of blood flow in the brain
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