medical physics

Book now to see Physics Broadcaster Professor Jim Al-Khalil and comedian Dr Phil Hammond at MPEC 2020. IPEM’s annual conference and Biennial Radiotherapy Meeting is online from September 21, with daily sessions on Clinical Engineering, MR in RT, and features an opportunity to find out how COVID-19 will change how we work. Find out more […]

Radiotherapy teams from Singleton Hospital in Swansea and St James’s University Hospital in Leeds performed a fact-finding tour of the radiotherapy department at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesborough. Pictured are RT radiographer Julie Wood, RT physicist Dr Steve Weston, RT technical research radiographer Peter Enever and RT engineer Chris Forrest all of St James’s, […]

Participants at the Oxford venue. Canon Medical Systems has followed its successful 2016 CT study days aimed at medical physicists with a series of courses entitled ‘Canon Medical Systems technologies – a physicist’s perspective’.  The one-day events were held in Glasgow, Manchester and Oxford, with invitees including clinical scientists, radiation protection advisors, medical physics experts […]

Some of the delegates enjoy a drink on Captain Scott’s Antarctic vessel RRS Discovery. The Erasmus Courses on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (EMRI) were formed in 1991, and as part of this a basic MRI physics module was formed as a resource for radiology audiences.  The course is run annually by one of five European universities […]

Niall Colgan with his poster on glucoCEST. Imaging Equipment Limited has again sponsored a travel bursary at The Irish Association of Physicists in Medicine (IAPM).  Founded in 2010, the IAPM now has more than 170 members, many of whom attended the 7th Annual Scientific Conference in Waterford in April.  Around 130 physicists met for a […]

Pictured demonstrating the 3D Scanner unit and software is Sun Nuclear product training physicist Lukasz Wlodarczyk. Sun Nuclear and UK distributor Imaging Equipment Limited ran a joint two-day training session at Genesis Care’s Sandford Medical Centre to demonstrate the Sun Nuclear 3D Scanner to customers.  The scanner has been developed from the ground up to […]

The first cohort of the Graduate Diploma in Healthcare Science. Students on the first cohort of a new Graduate Diploma in Healthcare Science began their course at the University of Cumbria last month.  The two-year course for physics graduates fast tracks them into practitioner posts within therapy and nuclear medicine departments where significant workforce skills […]

With the Discovery 630 camera is head of department Dr Bill Thomson, GE Healthcare radiology account manager Nicky Jones, chief technologist Neil Smith and principal physicist Joe O’Brien. The physics and nuclear medicine department at City Hospital, Birmingham, has undergone a £1.4m upgrade with two new gamma cameras, improved Xeleris 3 Processing network, refurbished waiting room, […]