Diagnostic imaging
Radiography, MRI, ultrasound, CT, nuclear medicine and more
Research & Innovation News
THz images home in on cancerous tissues
Sep 1, 2010
Spectroscopic information in terahertz images can distinguish cancers from healthy tissues and even identify cancer subtypes.
Magnetic measurements home in on stroke
Aug 25, 2010
Magnetic induction tomography is under investigation for detection of brain lesions such as cerebral haemorrhage.
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.
PET/MRI creates diagnostic-quality images
Aug 19, 2010
Simultaneous PET/MR image acquisition enables structural, functional and molecular imaging of brain tumours.
Opinion
A capital week for Canadian medical physicists
Jul 16, 2010
The Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists held its annual scientific meeting last month in Ottawa. Malcolm McEwen of the National Research Council Canada reports on the event's highlights.
Molecular imaging targets angiogenesis analysis
Jul 2, 2010
Molecular imaging modalities offer potential for assessing angiogenic response and monitoring therapeutic angiogenesis. Yale University's Lawrence W Dobrucki and co-authors review recent process.
WIMP 2010: a cool connection
Mar 30, 2010
Last month, around 60 physicists attended the Winter Institute of Medical Physics, to catch up on the latest developments in radiotherapy and medical imaging, and hone their snowboarding and skiing skills alongside.
MR-guidance: the next step for IGRT?
Feb 25, 2010
As imaging becomes an indispensable part of the radiotherapy process, will MR-guided treatment prove the way forward?
Newsfeed
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FONAR UPRIGHT MRI chosen over 3T lie-down MRI
Aug 26, 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
Fast kilovoltage/megavoltage (kVMV) breathhold cone-beam CT for image-guided radiotherapy of lung cancer
Jul 12, 2010
H Wertz et al 2010 Phys. Med. Biol. 55 4203
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
Computing effective dose in cardiac CT
Jun 21, 2010
W Huda , S Tipnis , A Sterzik and U J Schoepf 2010 Phys. Med. Biol. 55 3675