Queensland Medical Physics

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IT'S HERE! The vital position statement outlining the importance of men with prostate cancer considering ALL treatment options has been released. Please share with anyone affected by this disease - we can help men make the right treatment choice for them. Thank you! More info: goo.gl/aUhZrc

Global Burden of Cancer, 1990 to 2016 This systematic analysis evaluates the cancer burden over time at the global and national levels measured in incidence, mortality, years lived with disability, years of life lost, and disability-adjusted life-years.

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Day in the Life of Australian Nuclear Medicine Go behind the scenes as nuclear medicine makes its way from the OPAL reactor to medical centres around Australia.

On this day in 1964, the first computer program written in BASIC was run at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Invented by two Dartmouth professors—Thomas Kurtz (left) and John Kemeny—BASIC, an acronym for Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, was designed to simplify computing and make computer programming accessible to all. With that idea in mind, Kemeny and Kurtz tried to use common English words with obvious meanings. Kemeny envisioned all people having access to computers and using them for such tasks as writing a letter or playing games. Variations on BASIC proliferated in the 1970s and 1980s. One of those variants was written by Bill Gates, who went on to found Microsoft. Kemeny and Kurtz have been credited with launching the open-source software movement and promoting computer literacy. (Photo credit: Dartmouth College)

Computers equal radiologists in assessing breast density and associated breast cancer risk Automated breast-density evaluation was just as accurate in predicting women's risk of breast cancer, found and not found by mammography, as subjective evaluation done by radiologists, in a study led by researchers at UC San Francisco and Mayo Clinic.

We all dream of unlimited clean energy - even if only in the distant future.

Check how scientists are working to eventually harness the power of the sun through nuclear ⚛️ fusion. iaea.org/topics/fusion

How can we reduce the risk of exposure incidents in radiology? | IAEA There is a wide range in the types of incident involving overexposure of patients that can occur in diagnostic or interventional radiology. These may be accidental or unintended resulting from errors made by staff, sometimes they occur through failures to fully optimize exposures or may be due to eq...

IMRT Safety and QA: A Physician's Perspective | IAEA The IAEA webinar in radiation protection focuses on the physicians prospective on intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).

Radiation in real time MR-linac merges MRI technology with a linear accelerator, allowing doctors to treat tumors with greater precision

Vale Stephen Hawking. We were so lucky to experience your genius in our lifetimes.

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