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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.

PMB records Impact Factor success

Jun 22, 2010

Physics in Medicine & Biology now offers the highest Impact Factor for any journal in the field of medical physics.

CEUS shows molecular imaging potential

May 21, 2010

Development efforts aim to facilitate contrast-enhanced ultrasound for molecular imaging.

Nano-protection for radiation treatments

May 5, 2010

Melanin-covered nanoparticles may protect bone marrow from the harmful effects of radiation therapy.

Opinion

Medical physicists: preparing for change

Oct 27, 2008 (6 comments)

As the boundaries between medical disciplines become increasingly blurred and those between diagnosis, therapy and management follow suit, how can medical physicists adapt to these changing needs?

High-performance computing: shaping medicine's future

Jul 14, 2008

Tools such as grid networks and supercomputers will play a vital supporting role in biomedical research and clinical development.

'Multidisciplinarians' set the agenda in biophotonics

May 2, 2008

Photonic technologies are undergoing a second renaissance, argues Tom Baer of the Stanford Photonics Research Center in California. So what does that mean for biomedical applications?

Multimodal themes shape the BiOS agenda

Jan 28, 2008

A multimodality approach to diagnostics and therapeutics was one of the defining themes at the recent Biomedical Optics Symposium in San Jose, California.