Today, Mr. Samuel Shyllon, one of our Masters students is going to introduce his research project. Samuel is working under Professor Martin Ebert‘s supervision. “Hello, my name is Samuel Shyllon and I am a UWA Medical Physics student that is currently working on a project that involves comparing CyberKnife and proton therapy for the treatmentRead more…
Eugenia “Jenny” Mylona is visiting Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital during December 2018 – April 2019, as part of a collaboration between SCGH and the University of Rennes, to use image processing and statistical approaches to anatomically localise the relationship between radiotherapy dose delivery and resulting treatment toxicity. With knowledge of such relationships, it will be possibleRead more…
Marco Marcello, our PhD student, has been awarded the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) travel award to attend EPSM 2018 – based on the scores provided by reviewers of abstracts submitted for the EPSM conference. We would like to congratulate him on his great achievement. Find out more about the program inRead more…
On Saturday 15/9/2018 our PhD student Emily Her and our Master student Thomas Klein were awarded the prestigious Robert Stanford Award and John Black Award for their presentations in the annual ACPSEM-WA branch scientific meeting. Emily’s presentation title was: “Hypofractionated intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for prostate cancer using patient-specific cancer biology“. And Thomas presented: “Dosimetric VerificationRead more…
As per previous years, many of the UWA Medical Physics group members volunteered in the annual Daffodil Day campaign for Cancer Council WA. We started early on August 24, and were overwhelmed by the degree of support from the public in all ages and backgrounds especially school students. Well done everyone! (click on the pictureRead more…
We are going to introduce one of our brilliant Medical Physics graduates, Mr. Joshua Hiatt. Josh started his MPhys (Medical Physics) at UWA mid-2016. His research project was on “MultiLeaf Collimator Positioning for Small Fields: A New Investigation into Automatic EPID-based Verification” supervised by Dr. Pejman Rowshanfarzad from Medical Physics Group at UWA, Mr. GodfreyRead more…
The UWA Health Campus opened to the community for the first time at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on 8th of April 2018. Our postgraduate students answered queries from the public regarding the Medical Physics program and the future career pathways. Click on the image to enlarge. From left: Thomas KLEIN, Kelly MACKINNON, Warwick SMITH, Pejman ROWSHANFARZAD (program chair) FindRead more…
On 21st of March 2018 we took a group photo after our weekly research meeting at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. This year we are honoured to host Prof. Robert Jeraj from the University of Wisconsin (Madison). Robert is one of the world’s most eminent medical physicists and undertakes work that spans the globe. Click onRead more…
In February, at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (SCGH) in Perth, we had the delightful opportunity of hearing from a collection of specialists regarding medical imaging and its applications in radiation oncology. The audience consisted of novices to the field (with many masters students in attendance) up to experienced staff and experts. The presentations were spreadRead more…
Mario started his MPhys (Medical Physics) at our university in 2016. His research project was on “Evaluation of a mobile C-arm cone-beam CT in interstitial high-dose rate brachytherapy treatment planning” supervised by Adj/Prof Martin Ebert, Dr. David Waterhouse, and Dr. Pejman Rowshanfarzad. The project was carried out at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Here are commentsRead more…
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