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Latest updates on fields of Radiation Oncology, Medical Physics and Radiology

On this page, you may find interesting information about latest news in the field of Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Oncology, Radiation Oncology, and General Medicine which I collected on Internet and from the other published sources, and which is relevant for education process in Medical and Biological Physics.

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General news and interesting facts
  • On May 24-25 of 2018, Dr. Natalka Suchowerska, the head of Research and Education at the Chris O'Brien Lifehouse clinic (Sydney, Australia) paid a visit to our Department. Link

  • This is interesting video how neuron network heals itself. (Credit Dr.Lila Landowski) Link 

  • A lone brain cell reaching out for connections. Link

  • Entire neuron mesh in a human body .  Link (@fasc1nate)

  • This is how a mitochondrion looks like -->

  • Everything is relative in the world, including sizes -->

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Radiation Oncology, Radiology
  • Portable MRI unit generates a 3-D brain image within 10 minutes. ...

  • This is an example of the ultra high rate radiation delivery (300 Gy/ s vs. traditional 0.1Gy/s) with the the very steep spatial gradient of the radiation field.  ... 

  • I came across this post about SBR treatment of lung cancer in a 72 y.o. patient   ...

  • Report of a new successful treatment of breast cancer with immunotherapy. ...

  • Here is  the interesting post on the new tool for tumor diagnostics.

  • Here is a post on the stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for prostate cancer

  • Here is the interesting post about immune response to the tumor
    treated with radiotherapy

  • Here is the impressing video taken in National Institute of Health (Bethesda, USA).
    It shows how lymphocytes (killer T-cell) attack cancer cells.

  • Comparative study on the use of SBRT with different modalities for treatment of prostate cancer

  • This  video was created to commemorate the Scientist for her pioneering research in Medical Physics and 150 years Marie Curie legacy. 

  • Something interesting about metallic parts in the MRI bunker ... 

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Therapeutic and diagnostic ultrasound
  • I found a very interesting video post about high-intensity focused
    ultrasound presented by Prof.
    Constantin Coussios from the University of Oxford.

  • This is the latest data on use of HIFU to remove pain in patients with bone cancer

 

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Thermal medicine and thermography
  • This is a link to a introductory paper on medical thermography.

  • This is an interesting paper on hyperthermia.

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Computations and computer simulations
  • It's coming webinar on use of MATLAB. See MathWorks site .

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