Biomedical optics
Therapeutic and diagnostic applications of optical technologies
Research & Innovation News
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.
Nanoparticles deliver two therapies in one
Jan 17, 2012
Dual-function nanoparticles show promise for photodynamic and photothermal therapy.
In brief: research round-up
Jan 13, 2012
Recent developments in radiotherapy, tumour modelling, nanomedicine and more.
Opinion
The low-down on molecular imaging
Dec 1, 2011
Video report: Simon Cherry discusses recent progress in molecular imaging and examines how these techniques are increasingly being translated to the clinic.
PlanetHPC: what's next for high-performance computing?
Jan 5, 2011 (1 comment)
How can developments in high-performance computing help medical physics? PlanetHPC wants to hear your views.
In vivo dosimetry: implementation issues
Oct 28, 2009
In vivo radiotherapy dosimetry has a great deal to offer, so why is it not more widely deployed? Writing in the British Journal of Radiology, Craig Edwards takes a closer look.
Optical modelling points the way to PDT progress
May 14, 2009
Off-the-shelf commercial software is helping scientists to enhance the clinical efficacy of photodynamic therapy for targeted tumour destruction, reports Joe McEntee.
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Verisante Core lauded by Canadian Cancer Society
Jan 10, 2012
Physics in Medicine & Biology
A novel method for fast and robust estimation of fluorescence decay dynamics using constrained least-squares deconvolution with Laguerre expansion
Feb 3, 2012
Jing Liu, Yang Sun, Jinyi Qi and Laura Marcu 2012 Phys. Med. Biol. 57 843
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
FTC: Electromechanical wave imaging for arrhythmias
Oct 28, 2011
Jean Provost, Vu Thanh-Hieu Nguyen, Diégo Legrand, Stan Okrasinski, Alexandre Costet, Alok Gambhir, Hasan Garan and Elisa E Konofagou 2011 Phys. Med. Biol. 56 L1
Predictive models for pressure-driven fluid infusions into brain parenchyma
Sep 16, 2011
Raghu Raghavan and Martin Brady 2011 Phys. Med. Biol. 56 6179