• A 3D vision approach for correction of patient pose in radiotherapy
• A discrepancy in QA result may be caused by the CT-ED data in planning system – Investigation into the improvement of IMRT planning dosimetry verification
• A dual TLD system for x-ray energy discrimination in personnel monitoring
• A Monte Carlo study of two Compton cameras' first plane detectors
• A Monte-Carlo Simulation of the Princess Alexandra Hospital's IMRT Quality Assurance Procedure
• A new perspective on ultrasound assessment of cancellous bone
• A novel methodology for 3D deformable dosimetry
• A Simulator for Cardiac Catheterisation
• A surgical instrument for measuring forces applied to the ossicles of the middle ear
• A Universal Medical Use Interface (MUI)
• A3551 Update
• ABSIM: Abdominal Palpation Training Simulator
• Annealing and reuse of MOSFET dosimeter
• AS3003 Update
• Assessing CT protocols in a paediatric hospital using a patient dose survey
• Assessment for Philippines ROMP Registrar Training
• Asset Management - A model for providing integrated and transparent asset replacement prioritisation strategies
• Benchmarks for Targeted Alpha Therapy for Cancer
• BeO fibre optic dosimeter
• Biomedical Technology Management: Procurement & replacement planning
• BME IT Device Management
• Building Capacity in Biomechanics – Teaching in Cambodia
• Bystander Effects in Radiotherapy of non-small Cell Lung Cancer
• Calibration of Ionisation Chambers at ARPANSA
• CAnat: An Algorithm for the Automatic Segmentation of Anatomy of Medical Images
• Cancer Care in Regional Australia: A Government Perspective
• Challenges in Successfully Developing Three Regional Radiotherapy Centres. The NCCI Experience.
• Changes in current, dose and noise due to position variation from the isocentre in CT
• Characterisation of a novel diamond-based microdosimeter for radioprotection applications in space environments
• Characterisation of Ru-106 eye plaques for the improvement of quality assurance in eye brachytherapy
• Charge Collection Characteristics of new Epitaxial and SOI based Large Area Microdosimeters
• Clinical Impact of Electron Density Calibration on Dose Calculation
• Clinical Implementation of Hypofractionated Body Radiotherapy at Royal North Shore Hospital
• Clinical implementation of VMAT using Elekta linacs and Oncentra Masterplan TPS
• Clinical trials radiotherapy treatment plan review software: is this the first quantified assessment?
• Commissioning of a MatriXX Evolution for IMRT and VMAT verification
• Comparison of digitally reconstructed radiographs (DRRs) generated from 4-Slice and 64-Slice helical CT scanners: a phantom study
• Computational Modelling of Radiotherapy Treatment Equipment - Relationship Between the Intricate Details of A Radiotherapy Treatment Beam and Its Subsequent Dose Distributions
• Continuing Professional Development Systems for Medical Physicists
• Designing Wearable Catheterisation Trainers for Australian Medical Students
• Detection of TPS dose calculation error in head and neck IMRT patient
• Determining the most Stable Breathing Phase for Respiratory Gating using Velocity Deformable Registration in Patients with Lung Cancer
• Development and Investigation of a Lumbar Posture Monitor with Biofeedback
• Development of a 2D array silicon detector “Magic Plate” for the dosimetric verification of IMRT treatment delivery
• Development of a Randomised 3D cell Model for Monte Carlo Microdosimetric Ionisation Track Structure Simulations using GEANT4
• Development of a software and methodology to perform control-point based dose verification of VMAT delivery using EPID
• Development of Body Surface Area Measurement using Multi-View Imaging for Psoriasis Area Assessment
• Diagnostic Reference Levels (DRLs) in Cardiac Angiography – early experiences in Queensland Health
• Dialysis in the Desert: Keeping Communities Together
• Direct Calibration of Ionization Chambers in Linac Photon Beams at ARPANSA
• Dosimetry of Brachytherapy by the Oncoseed 6711 using Glass Rod Dosimeters and EGS5 in a Geometry Lacking Radiation Equilibrium Scatter Conditions
• Early Simulations for The Australian MRI-Linac Project (AMP)
• ECO Training in the Pacific
• Effect of Caffeine Intake on Visual and Cognitive Functions
• Effect of the time characteristics of the Compton camera on its performance
• Effectiveness of group training days for TEAP registrars
• eHealth
• Evaluation of MotionSim XY/4D^TMfor Patient-specific QA of Respiratory Gated Treatment for Lung Cancer
• From PNG Trainee to Pacific Island Mentor
• Gating treatment delivery QA based on a surrogate motion analysis
• Global DNA Methylation Responses to Low Dose Radiation Exposure
• Home Brew Technetium: Clinical-scale desktop plasma fusion neutron source to produce Tc 99m as an alternative to industrial-scale fission reactor sources
• How to Publish a Paper in a Peer-Reviewed Journal
• Humanitarian Engineering and Engineers Without Borders Australia
• ICRU Report #83 Related Key Issues Implemented in Clinical Quality Management for Volumetric IMRT
• IGRT of the Breast: Doses to Contralateral Breast, Heart and Other Untargeted Tissues
• Image Guided Radiotherapy: Performance of a Cone Beam CT Automatic Image Registration of the Prostate
• Imaging dose with cine-kV acquisition during treatment for prostate radiotherapy
• Implementing ICRU 83 Recommendations with IMRT in Clinical Trials – The TROG 08.03 ‘RAVES’ Experience
• Improving patient safety by standardising medical oxygen gas cylinder connections
• IMRT QA: Does one size fit all?
• Introduction to the Australian Study of Low Dose Radiation – Assessing the Effects of CT Scans in Childhood
• Investigating different methods of measuring and monitoring body and core temperatures on newborn babies
• Investigation of High Frequency, High Voltage Pulses Application on Bending Properties of Bone
• Investigation of Normal Tissue Complication Probalities in Prostate and Partial-Breast Irradiation Radiotherapy Techniques
• Investigation of the dosimetric properties of a flood field corrected Siemens Optivue 1000ST and Elekta iViewGT Electronic Portal Imaging Device
• Is it sensible to ‘deform’ doses? : Experimental validation of dose deformation calculation with the first 3D deformable dosimeter
• Is the Increasing Cost of Technology an Answer to Winning the War on Cancer?
• Junction effects of RapidArc head and neck treatments
• Leakage Patterns of Linear Accelerator Treatment Heads from Multiple Vendors
• Light transmission during occlusion, for noninvasive monitoring
• Managing device safety for large quantities of devices: Syringe pumps in South East Asia
• Medical Equipment Needs in Developing Countries
• Methodology for assessment of impact of contouring variation on clinical trial design
• Modelling of Human Skin Phototype IV using Monte Carlo Method
• Monte Carlo modeling of diode detectors for small field MV photon dosimetry
• Monte Carlo Simulations of Necrotic Cell Targeted Alpha Therapy
• Observation of Hypoxia in HNSCC Xenografts during Fractionated Radiotherapy
• Ongoing development of digital radiotherapy plan review tools
• Open Access Publishing at Springer SBM
• Optical surface mapping to complement use of CBCT in SBRT of lung
• Optical tomographic in-air scanner for external radiation beam 3D gel dosimetry
• Optimisation of multiple isocentre stereotactic radiosurgery planning
• Optimising Radiotherapy Outcomes – Scheduling Patient Waiting Lists For Maximum Population Tumour Control
• Palliative and Low Cost Radiotherapy in Developing Countries
• Physical Implementation of Pair-Based Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity
• Point-counterpoint: Quo Vadis Radiotherapy. EBRT, as the Technology cost Increases, vs Other Treatment Modalities in the War on Cancer
• Potential Implications of the Proposed ICRP Revision of Dose Conversion Factors for Radon and Radon Decay Products
• Preliminary Simulation of a Continuous Throughflow Cardiac Output Monitor
• Preliminary validation of a Monte Carlo model for IMRT fields
• Presentation from DoHA - Major Sponsor
• Progress report on the ICARIS project
• Progressive Assessment for TEAP
• Proposal for a Medical Equipment Maintenance Program using Risk Management
• Quality Assurance of the Instrument used to Measure Professional Competence
• Quality indicators for permanent I-125 prostate seed implants: seven years post implant dosimetry evaluation
• Quality Management Systems for Biomedical Engineering
• Radiation Oncology Medical Physics Education and Training in Queensland
• Radiation Oncology Unit Project (Darwin)
• Radioluminescence of Fluoroperovskites as Fibre Coupled Dosimeters for Radiotherapy
• Radiosensitization of Prostate Cancer Cells in vitro using Gold Nanoparticles
• Real-time in vivo Dosimetry in High Dose Rate Brachytherapy Using an Electronic Portal Imaging Device
• RedR Australia - Humanitarian Engineering
• Remote Facility Challenges
• Removing Ocular Artifact Using Stationary Wavelet Transform
• Repeat CT Imaging For Boost Treatment-Planning During Intact Breast Irradiation: Does The Secondary CT Imaging Need To Be Done?
• Report on the TEAP Review
• Responding to Journal Reviewers’ Comments on Your Manuscript
• Scintillation Dosimetry Array based on Air Core Technology
• Segmentation of Acne Lesions using K-Means Clustering
• Segmentation of Granulation Tissue in Chronic Ulcers
• Shape difference in the mid-latency response after presentation of homophasic and antiphasic auditory stimuli
• Shutters to remove background Cerenkov signals in scintillation dosimetry
• Simulations of Hypoxic HNSCC with Clinically Trialled and New Radiation Fractionation Schedules using the HYP-RT Monte Carlo Model
• Status of Radiotherapy and Medical Physicist Training in Vietnam
• Students in Clinical Engineering
• Suitability of real-time EPID tracking for tumour position verification in gated radiotherapy
• Teaming Up With Rotary
• The ACPSEM Diagnostic Imaging TEAP Project – Current Status
• The Australian Clinical Dosimetry Service
• The Australian National Diagnostic Reference Level Survey – Phase 1 Computed Tomography
• The Case for Focal Brachytherapy for the Management of Low Grade Prostate Cancer
• The Development of Radiation Oncology in the Northern Territory - What to Think About when Starting a Regional Cancer Centre
• The Dosimetric Effect Of Calcifications In Prostate Brachytherapy: A Geant4-Based Study
• The effects of bisphosphonates on trabecular bone architecture
• The Implementation of an In-Vivo Diode Dosimetry Program
• The Maze: Medical Devices, Procurement and Standards
• The Mystery of ECT, how does it work? How to test and calibrate the Thymatron (Somatics, Lake Bluff, IL) and how to obtain the optimum test result with good test preparation
• The Never-Ending Research Funding Grant Writing Cycle - Different Options and Lessons Learned
• The Role of Clinical Engineers in Strategic Technology Planning – Part 1
• The Role of Clinical Engineers in Strategic Technology Planning – Part 2
• The Royal Perth Hospital Biomedical Engineering Medical ICT Experience
• The Serval Project: Creating a Robust Infrastructure-Independent Communications Safety Net
• The treatment accuracy of hypofractionated spine and other highly conformal IMRT treatments
• The TROG ANROTAT project – just another acronym?
• TLD-100H accuracy for kilovoltage cone-beam CT out-of-field measurements
• Towards Development of an Image-guided Radiotherapy System to Treat Deforming Tumours in Real-Time
• Towards establishing DRLs for digital mammography in Australia
• Towards Photorealistic Rendering in Endoscopy Simulation
• Training Medical Physicists and Engineers in SE Asia
• Training of Diagnostic Radiology Medical Physicists in Philippines and Thailand
• Treatment technique evolution and dosimetry trends over seven years of prostate brachytherapy at the Royal Adelaide Hospital
• Uncertainty evaluation in absorbed dose to water calibration with high energy photon beams at ARPANSA
• Update on Radiotherapy Support for PNG
• Using Monte Carlo modelling in optimizing treatment outcome in advanced head and neck cancers treated with chemo-radiotherapy
• Verification of the transmission through the IGRT Exact couch structure in the Eclipse treatment planning system for dynamic fields
• Visual Measurement of Erythema in Atopic Eczema
• Volumetric Imaging in Image-Guided Radiotherapy of the Post-Prostatectomy Surgical bed
• What’s that golf ball doing in my patient?
• Why an Education Unit?
• “e-learning”: Considerations for Online Training Course Development

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