Company details
Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre Dec 2, 2008
About this company
Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre
Western General Hospital Crewe Road South
Edinburgh
UK
EH4 2XR
United Kingdom
Tel:
+44 131 537 2249
Welcome to the University of Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre (ECRC). The Centre has several main themes; clinical research, basic research and integrative cancer care research.
Categories
- Ionizing radiations (ultraviolet, X-rays,gamma-rays, ions, electrons, positrons, neutrons, and mesons, etc.)
- Optical radiation (near ultraviolet,visible, and infrared)
- Radio frequency and microwave radiation (power lines)
- Sound and ultrasound
- Magnetic fields
- Electric fields
- Radiation monitoring, control, and safety
- Photon dosimetry: theory and algorithms
- Photon dosimetry: measurements
- Electron and positron dosimetry: theory and algorithms
- Electron and positron dosimetry: measurements
- Brachytherapy
- Conformal radiation treatment
- Stereotactic radiosurgery
- Beam intensity modification: wedges, Na Radioimmunotherapycompensators
- Portal imaging in therapy
- Proton, neutron, and heavier particle dosimetry: theory and algorithms
- Proton, neutron, and heavier particle dosimetry: measurements
- Microdosimetry
- Record and verify systems and applications
- Treatment planning, optimization, tissue response factors, and dose-volume analysis
- Collimation
- Simulation
- Monte Carlo applications
- Quality assurance in radiotherapy
- Thermotherapy (hyperthermia and cryogenic therapy)
- Electrotherapy
- Photodynamic therapy
- Sound and ultrasound therapy/lithotripsy
- Image quality: contrast, resolution, noise, etc.
- Image reconstruction and registration
- Image analysis
- Computer-aided diagnosis
- Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
- Positron emission tomography (PET)
- Dosimetry
- Pulse sequences for imaging
- Instrumentation
- Angiography and macroscopic flow estimation
- Clinical imaging studies