Biomedical optics
Therapeutic and diagnostic applications of optical technologies
Research & Innovation News
Innovation: patent applications review
Aug 20, 2010
Our survey of the latest international patent applications in radiation therapy reviews filings from Varian, .decimal, Xoft, SpectraCure and more.
Nano update: detect, image, treat
Aug 11, 2010 (1 comment)
The latest nanotechnology advances: from arterial plaque ablation to ultrasensitive imaging, wound dressings to tumour therapy.
Optical ECT: the complete correction
Aug 10, 2010
A complete attenuation-correction algorithm for optical-emission CT can reconstruct quantitatively accurate emission images.
In brief: research round-up
Aug 4, 2010
Recent developments in radiotherapy planning, photodynamic therapy, CT and more.
Opinion
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.
IMRT: next move, biological optimization?
Dec 11, 2008
The unique beam-delivery conditions of IMRT offer an opportunity to optimize the biological response of tumour cells to therapeutic irradiation, explains Natalka Suchowerska of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia.
Blue-sky thinking converges on imaging, biology
Nov 6, 2008
Imaging and tumour biology proved to be two of the headline themes at a workshop on the future of physics in radiation oncology. Joe McEntee reports from the keynote session.
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Medtronic signs agreement to acquire Osteotech
Aug 18, 2010
Physics in Medicine & Biology
A parallel adaptive finite element simplified spherical harmonics approximation solver for frequency domain fluorescence molecular imaging
Aug 2, 2010
Y Lu, B Zhu, H Shen, J C Rasmussen, G Wang and E M Sevick-Muraca 2010 Phys. Med. Biol. 55 4625
A comprehensive method for optical-emission computed tomography
Jun 28, 2010
A Thomas, J Bowsher, J Roper, T Oliver, M Dewhirst and M Oldham 2010 Phys. Med. Biol. 55 3947
Topical review: RBE of low energy electrons and photons
May 6, 2010
Hooshang Nikjoo and Lennart Lindborg 2010 Phys. Med. Biol. 55 R65
The integration of quantitative multi-modality imaging data into mathematical models of tumors
Apr 9, 2010
N C Atuegwu, J C Gore and T E Yankeelov 2010 Phys. Med. Biol. 55 2429