Megavoltage treatment introduction in Australia
Australia was one of the first nations to utilise MV radiation therapy equipment, with three among the first dozen clinical linear accelerators being installed in Australia in 1956 and 1957 (Thwaites and Tuohy, 2006). The number of MV teletherapy systems…
First text book contribution!
I contributed to Chapter 18: Postal and clinical trial dosimetry. The textbook also features contributions from frequent collaborators Tanya Kairn, Johnny Morales and Robin Hill. The book is scheduled for publication on October 27th, and you can buy it here.
60 days of spam: academic conferences
Presented here is an analysis of 176 unsolicited English-language invitations to attend conferences received over a 60 day period at two personal email accounts (Google and QUT). For each unsolicited email the name of the conference, location and ordinal. The 176…
60 days of spam: scholarly publishers
Presented here is an analysis of 114 unsolicited English-language invitations to submit work to journals received over a 60 day period at two personal email accounts (Google and QUT). For each unsolicited email the journal and publisher were recorded, and…
Illustration of extended CT number scales
Standard CT reconstruction data is stored using 12-bit unsigned integers (i.e. having possible values of 0 to 4095). These unsigned values are rescaled to a range encompassing -1024 through 3071 (using an offset, or intercept of -1024). However CT data can also…
RBWH Journal Club 2016
The papers discussed in the 2016 Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital Radiation Oncology Medical Physics Group journal club meetings are listed here, for future reference.
ROMP TEAP completion schedule
The ACPSEM Radiation Oncology Medical Physics (ROMP) Training, Education and Assessment Program (TEAP) aims to provide the training and education required to become a certified radiation oncology medical physicist. The program is designed to be completed within 3 years by a…
Advice for medical physics job seekers
The employment market for medical physics registrar positions in Australia is a competitive one. Between May and July 2016 I conducted a survey of heads of departments that had advertised for medical physics registrars recently (mostly from 2015 onwards), asking…
Past RBWH treatment systems
The tables below list treatment units at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital prior to 2003; as transcribed from handwritten equipment records. Megavoltage treatment units Prior to 2003, these units were located in Block 8B (LA1 + LA2) and Block…
Miss Helen Farran
Miss Helen Elizabeth Anne Farran (B.Sc) succeeded Miss Dorothy Wellington (described here), the first clinical physicist in Australia, at the Melbourne Hospital. In 1947 Miss Farran was one of the trainers for a one year Radiotherapy course conducted at the Melbourne…