I am happy to announce that the two most critical parts of our new Field-Cycling Imaging scanner are being built. The University recently agreed the offers for the purchase of the magnet and its power supplies. These are major components of the system: the magnet generates a variety of magnetic…
Our research group has been working hard for over more than 10 years to explore how to make this technology work, and I am glad to say that we’ve had much success in the past few years. So much so, that we are now starting to build a new scanner…
Hi, my name is Andy Welch and I coordinate the MSc Medical Physics and MSc Medical Imaging programmes here at the University of Aberdeen. One of the questions that I often get asked by potential students is the difference between the two programmes. The term Medical Physics is fairly well…
The ability of medical scanners to produce images of our bodies in exquisite detail provides a powerful tool for the diagnosis and management of a wide variety of diseases. While we may marvel at the images, we rarely consider the evidence that is required before these scanners can be used…
