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MRI safety: accidents are not inevitable Jan 10, 2012

With MRI accidents on the increase, what's really needed is a uniform set of MRI safety standards that apply to all providers and which are enforced. Tobias Gilk explains.

Research & Innovation news

Innovation: patent applications review

Jan 27, 2012

Our survey of the latest international patent applications in radiation therapy reviews filings from Accuray, Philips, Xoft and more.

Photoacoustic device sees early metastases

Jan 25, 2012

A photoacoustic device can detect individual melanoma cells circulating in the blood stream.

Classifying motion guides adaptive therapy

Jan 24, 2012

A scheme that classifies sources of lung tumour geometric variability could help guide adaptive radiotherapy.

In-gantry or remote patient positioning?

Jan 20, 2012

Remote patient positioning can increase the throughput of proton therapy centres, in some circumstances.

Dual-role phantom offers proton dosimetry

Jan 19, 2012

Polymer gel dosimeter measures proton dose distribution and the induced positron emission activity simultaneously.

Tissue stiffness helps track liver disease

Jan 18, 2012

Characterizing the mechanisms that underlie liver tissue stiffening can help clinicians track the progression of liver disease.

Nanoparticles deliver two therapies in one

Jan 17, 2012

Dual-function nanoparticles show promise for photodynamic and photothermal therapy.

Algorithm improves apnea detection

Jan 16, 2012

Algorithm substantially improves detection of apnea in premature babies.

In brief: research round-up

Jan 13, 2012

Recent developments in radiotherapy, tumour modelling, nanomedicine and more.

Siemens explains rationale for linac exit

Jan 12, 2012 (2 comments)

Siemens Healthcare discusses its decision to exit from the linear accelerator business.

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Our pick of the best articles recently published in the journal Physics in Medicine & Biology.

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Topical review: Model-based elastography: a survey of approaches to the inverse elasticity problem Jan 20, 2012

M M Doyley 2012 Phys. Med. Biol. 57 R35

Including robustness in multi-criteria optimization for intensity-modulated proton therapy Jan 16, 2012

Wei Chen, Jan Unkelbach, Alexei Trofimov, Thomas Madden, Hanne Kooy, Thomas Bortfeld and David Craft 2012 Phys. Med. Biol. 57 591

Topical review: Tracer kinetic modelling in MRI: estimating perfusion and capillary permeability Jan 9, 2012

S P Sourbron and D L Buckley 2012 Phys. Med. Biol. 57 R1

White papers

The physics behind the phantom

Jan 23, 2012

The Edge Tool and corresponding software from Gammex are designed to evaluate the imaging performance of Digital Radiography and Computed Radiography systems.

Evaluating the geometric accuracy of Elekta Axesse® for cone-beam image-guided stereotactic radiation therapy

Jan 17, 2012

A white paper by Hans Welleweerd, Corine A. van Es, Uulke A. van der Heide and Marco van Vulpen from the University Medical Center Utrecht in The Netherlands.

T2N1 Pancreas tumour treated using Symmetry™ 4D image guidance

Jan 17, 2012

A white paper by Jennifer Wloch and John Robertson from William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, MI.

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SPECT offers big benefits for imaging small animals

Freek Beekman describes the role of SPECT in small-animal imaging.

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Image guidance: the way forward for radiotherapy

Uwe Oelfke explains how image guidance can improve radiotherapy.

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The low-down on molecular imaging

Simon Cherry discusses recent progress in molecular imaging.

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