The MLC Shaper application, developed by Varian, allows the creation of .MLC files that can be used to deliver multi-leaf collimated fields in service. The first python exercise, detailed here, was to develop similar software to allow the creation of…
The radiation oncology medical physics group at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital have started a series of tutorials on the Python language. For the second tutorial, we will be discussing solutions to a few example medical physics exercises, detailed…
Python is a programming language that is popular among scientists, including medical physicists. The radiation oncology medical physics group at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital have started a series of tutorials on the Python language. These will serve as an…
Keeping up with the literature is an important part of research. Fortunately there are systems available to help with the process. Some of these systems are personalised: Google Scholar, for example, offers updates based on your citations. Those wishing to cast a…
LaTeX is a system for typesetting documents widely used within the sciences and academia for preparing books and articles. The LaTeX workflow involves the compilation of documents containing markup commands into postscript or PDF files, and so is more complicated…
The use of clinical trials in the development of new treatment techniques (pharmaceutical or otherwise) is a necessary step in demonstrating the efficacy of that treatment. The gold standard for testing new techniques is the randomised controlled trial, where participants are…
The results of a DOSXYZnrc simulation are stored in *.3ddose files containing the following blocks: the number of voxels in the x, y and z dimensions, the voxel boundary positions (cm) in the x dimension, the voxel boundary positions (cm)…
The use of CT data within a planning system necessitates a conversion from the Hounsfield scale, with units (HU) describing the radiodensity of the imaged tissue (compared to water, for X-ray energies), into density values, which the planning system can…
The Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) is responsible for the certification of Medical Physicists in Australia and New Zealand through the Training Education and Assessment Program (TEAP). One requirement of TEAP certification is the completion…
Taken from the Queanbeyan Age, published 5th September 1896. Source here. 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,…