Recent posts
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Miss Dorothy Wellington
In 1977, Dr. Rutherford Kaye Scott presented the first Sir Peter MacCallum Lecture at the opening of the new wing of the Peter MacCallum Hospital in Melbourne, which was published with the title “The Radiant Years” in Australasian Radiology (vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 6-31). In it he discussed the early use of radiation therapy…
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Rotating phantom in TSET delivery
Embedded footage from experiment in Masters research project of Anthony Orth, which examined dose uniformity of various total skin electron therapy treatment techniques. Here, a RANDO phantom has been placed on a custom-made rotating platform, controlled by an Arduino system. The radiation beam is started at the 24 second mark, evidenced by scattered radiation incident…
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The Rontgen rays
Day after day brings new evidence of the utility of the Rontgen X-rays in surgery. This week, the Rev. D. Laseron, of Lithgow, paid a visit to St. Stanislaut College, Bathurst, to undergo an operation for the extraction of a bullet, when the X rays will be used to discover it. It will be remembered…
About Me
I’m Scott Crowe, a radiation oncology medical physicist
I’m employed at the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital in Brisbane, Australia; with appointments at the Herston Biofabrication Institute, University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology. My research interests include applications of 3D printing in radiation oncology, the quantitative assessment of radiotherapy treatment quality and complexity, and radiation dosimetry.