Survey of image-guided radiotherapy use in Australia.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This paper reports the key findings of the first survey of recent Radiation Oncology graduates in Australia, New Zealand (ANZ) and Singapore. It explores their experiences in entering the workforce, challenges and perspectives. METHODS:The survey was conducted in April and May 2016 focusing on graduates f...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Leung J,Kariyasawam S,Forstner D,Chee R,James M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The goal of this initial clinical study was to test a new positron emission/tomography imager and biopsy system (PEM/PET) in a small group of selected subjects to assess its clinical imaging capabilities. Specifically, the main task of this study is to determine whether the new system can successfully be u...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Raylman RR,Abraham J,Hazard H,Koren C,Filburn S,Schreiman JS,Kurian S,Majewski S,Marano GD

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Aging skeletal muscle is associated with not only a reduction in muscle size and strength but also in muscle quality which reflects an increase in fatty infiltration of muscle. In men with prostate cancer, androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) accelerates this loss of muscle size and strength, but it is unkno...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Chang D,Joseph DJ,Ebert MA,Galvão DA,Taaffe DR,Denham JW,Newton RU,Spry NA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is rapidly becoming one of the major challenges for health care systems. Surgery has proved to be one of the most effective methods of helping patients to achieve sustainable weight loss. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is a relatively new bariatric surgical technique. A staple line is placed in a line paralle...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Barnard SA,Rahman H,Foliaki A

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Spinal tuberculosis (TB) accounts for 50% or more of skeletal tuberculosis. MRI is a helpful tool for spinal TB. MR findings in spinal TB however, may have several different patterns. METHODS:The MRI features of spinal TB and classification as usual and unusual findings are reported. The MR images in 52 p...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Thammaroj J,Kitkhuandee A,Sawanyawisuth K,Chowchuan P,Promon K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) scans in the first 49 patients referred with either possible brain tumour or brain tumour recurrence were reviewed. FDG-PET imaging was reported with reference to anatomical imaging. Based on the report the FDG study was classified as either positive or n...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： McCarthy M,Yuan JB,Campbell A,Lenzo NP,Butler-Henderson K

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital extrahepatic portocaval shunt is a rare condition that is described mostly in female patients. We report an unusual case of a young adult male patient with type 1 congenital extrahepatic portocaval shunt with associated development of a focal nodular hyperplasia on a background of regenerative nodules. With...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Kitzing YX,Gallagher J,Waugh R

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of our study was to assess our experience with the retrievable Gunther Tulip (GT) inferior vena cava (IVC) filter, with regard to its insertion, efficacy, ease of placement and retrieval, and associated complications. Between November 2001 and October 2005, 322 GT filters were placed in 317 patients. Insertion...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Given MF,McDonald BC,Brookfield P,Niggemeyer L,Kossmann T,Varma DK,Thomson KR,Lyon SM

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the cardiac dosimetry delivered before and after routine 3D CT whole-breast radiotherapy planning, including cardiac contouring and the relevance of a 15-mm maximum myocardial depth (MMD) planning tolerance threshold. METHODS:The PULp FICTion study permitted cardi...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Graham P

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-body MRI is an effective method for evaluating the entire skeletal system in patients with metastatic disease. This study aimed to compare whole-body MRI and radionuclide bone scintigraph in the detection of skeletal metastases in patients with prostate cancer. Patients with prostate cancer at high risk of skele...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Venkitaraman R,Cook GJ,Dearnaley DP,Parker CC,Khoo V,Eeles R,Huddart RA,Horwich A,Sohaib SA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this study was to evaluate the utility of an Australasian registry ('the Registry') for children undergoing radiation treatment (RT). METHODS:Children under the age of 16 years who received a course of radiation between January 1997 and December 2010 and were enrolled on the Registry form the s...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Ahern V

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This study sought to assess preoperative concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based findings according to a structured MRI report template for primary staging of rectal cancer, and to evaluate the prognostic relevance of the pre-CRT MRI-based findings in patients with rectal ...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Lee HJ,Chung WS,An JH,Kim JH

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe the chest CT features reported in children with confirmed COVID-19 infection, published in English literature. A systematic review was completed on PubMed, Embase and Scopus databases on the 1st of June 2020 using the PICO strategy. The NIH Quality Assessment Tool was used to assess the quality of the sele...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Simoni P,Bazzocchi A,Boitsios G,De Leucio A,Preziosi M,Aparisi Gómez MP

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Duplex kidneys are common, mostly asymptomatic and of no clinical significance. However, they can be associated with significant pathology, often with long-term morbidity. There is minimal literature on the review of the duplex kidney, its associated anomalies and complications. The purpose of this paper i...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Doery AJ,Ang E,Ditchfield MR

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Tumour response in lung cancer treatment is monitored by measuring lesion size in computed tomography (CT). Spectral CT (SCT) offers additional information on tumour tissue besides morphology. We evaluated SCT iodine content (IC) and performed spectral slope analysis to assess the response of non-small-cel...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Fehrenbach U,Feldhaus F,Kahn J,Böning G,Maurer MH,Renz D,Frost N,Streitparth F

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CT perfusion is increasingly utilised in hyperacute stroke to facilitate diagnosis and patient selection for reperfusion therapies. This review article demonstrates eight examples of how CT perfusion can be used to diagnose stroke mimics and small volume infarcts, which can be easily missed on non-contrast CT, and to ...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Chiu AH,Phillips TJ,Phatouros CC,Singh TP,Hankey GJ,Blacker DJ,McAuliffe W

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This study was performed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of multi-slice CT angiography combined with enterography in determining the cause and location of obstruction as well as intestinal ischaemia in patients with small bowel obstruction (SBO). METHODS:This study retrospectively summarized the im...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： He B,Gu J,Huang S,Gao X,Fan J,Sheng M,Wang L,Gong S

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Over the last decade interventional neuroradiology (NR) has become the mainstay of managing cerebral aneurysms. The aim of our study was to review our growing experiences with interventional NR and quantify morbidity and mortality associated with these procedures. METHODS:The electronic medical records of...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： McLaughlin A,Rice H,de Viliers L,Withers T,Pearson D,Arnell M,Walters K,Czuchwicki S,Bulmer A,Winearls J

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of benign bone tumours can be treated with curettage and packing with either bone cement or graft. It is essential that the radiologist be familiar with both the normal and abnormal post-operative imaging appearance of these treated tumours. Through the use of numerous imaging examples, we aim to provide a pi...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Dobson MA,McDonald DJ,Wessell DE,Friedman MV

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Long-term data from three randomized trials have demonstrated that adjuvant radiation therapy (ART) reduces the rate of biochemical failure in high-risk men following radical prostatectomy (RP). One of these trials has shown a survival advantage. We investigated the rate of ART in Victoria and the predicto...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Daniels CP,Millar JL,Spelman T,Sengupta S,Evans SM

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is limited long-term prospective data on the use of endovascular techniques and the use of thrombolysis in malfunctioning autologous haemodialysis fistulas. PURPOSE:Prospective assessment of clinical outcomes following angioplasty with or without low-dose thrombolysis was undertaken in patients who pr...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Tapping CR,Mallinson PI,Scott PM,Robinson GJ,Lakshminarayan R,Ettles DF

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oncology CT report is a vital piece of communication between the radiologist and the treating clinician and often determines patient management. The use of a standardised report that follows the tumour, node and metastasis (TNM) structure makes it easier for the radiologist to include all of the necessary informat...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Gormly KL

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of Positron emission tomography/computerised tomography (PET/CT) is well established in the staging and assessment of treatment response of lymphoma. Recent studies have suggested that whole body diffusion-weighted imaging -magnetic resonance imaging (WB-DW-MRI) may be an alternative to PET/CT in both staging ...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Fitzpatrick JJ,Ryan MA,Bruzzi JF

更新日期：2018-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute gastric volvulus is a rare surgical emergency which can lead to severe complications such as gastric ischaemia and perforation. Gastric volvulus is classified by the axis upon which the stomach rotates into organo-axial and mesentero-axial subtypes, with the former more common in adults. We present an uncommon c...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Mistry V,Gamble EL,Chang J

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aims of this study were to determine the diagnostic value of MR urography and to compare the T2- and T1-weighted MR urography techniques in patients with urinary diversion. METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed 19 MR urograms in 14 patients (13 male and one female, 8-77 years old, mean age: 54.2) with u...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Battal B,Kocaoglu M,Akgun V,Aydur E,Dayanc M,Ilica T

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Osteoid osteoma is a painful benign tumour, which is commonly treated by radiofrequency ablation (RFA). The goal of this study is to assess the value of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for predicting clinical success after RFA of osteoid osteoma. METHODS:Twenty consecutive patients (14 ...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Mahnken AH,Bruners P,Delbrück H,Günther RW,Plumhans C

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Having previously modelled the optimal proportion of uterine cervix and corpus cancers that should be treated with brachytherapy (BT), we aimed to complete the assessment of the role of BT for gynaecological cancers by estimating the optimal proportion of vaginal cancer cases that should be treated with BT...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Thompson SR,Delaney GP,Gabriel GS,Jacob S,Barton MB

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of our early experience with contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in the characterisation of focal liver lesions (FLLs) using histopathology, contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or other imaging follow-up as ...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Ooi CC,Low SC,Schneider-Kolsky M,Lombardo P,Lim SY,Abu Bakar R,Lo RH

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Paragangliomas are commonly treated with surgery, while radiotherapy is reserved for those that are inoperable or have relapsed. However, this retrospective study aims to determine whether radiotherapy is a viable initial treatment for paragangliomas. METHODS:Of 73 tumours researched, 44 were diagnosed an...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Smee RI,Jayasekara J,Williams JR,Hanna C

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Evidence that Deep Inspiration Breath Hold (DIBH) can reduce cardiac dose during left-sided breast radiation therapy (RT) has led to widespread uptake of this technology. There is a paucity of published information documenting the impact of this technique on the patient's treatment experience. The aim of t...

journal_title：Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

authors： Beaton NR,Watson S,Browne P,Sharma H,Mai GT,Harvey J,Bernard A,Brown E,Hargrave C,Lehman M

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00