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Spring 2021
Main Feature: The Physics of Life
Also featuring:
Technology Substantiated
Winter 2020
Main Feature: Complete Immersion
Also Featuring:
Syringe Driven Infusion
Autumn 2020
Main Feature: Inside the Nightingale
Weight loss in radiotherapy
Summer 2020
Main Feature: Keep breathing
Brick by brick - The Little Linac journey
March 2020
Main Feature: The Keystone Model
Radiation protection: things you need to know
December 2019
Main Feature: Stay on Target
MPEC 2019: The president, the cupcakes and a 40th birthday party
September 2019
Featuring: European dimension to qualification of technologists Sir Godfrey Hounsfield - the man behind the CT scanner Should pacemaker patients have better access to MRI scanning? How to be on top of your game in the profession
June 2019
Main feature: Pushing on to Invictus success
The new science of Bioinformatics
March 2019
Main Feature: Gender Equality what is Medical Physics doing to get it right
Clinical Engineering The development of portable medical devices
December 18
Main Feature: The Little Linac Project
Quality Management in radiotherapy services
September 18
Main Feature: 2018 The Year of Engineering
MDR: The health Institution exemption and MHRA draft guidance
June 18
New regulation for medical exposure to ionising radiation
Driving technique improvement
March 2018
Main Feature: Growth of Medical Physics
Career Planning
Dec 2017
Main feature: Prostate brachytherapy
Meet the new PEP members Evidence-based policymaking
Sept 2017
Main Features: Scottish Technologist training
Also Featuring: Requirements specification
June 2017
Main Features: Project Management Methodology for software development
Also featuring: The Clinical and Translational Radiotherapy Research Working Group
March 2017
Main features: Managing computing activities
Also featuring: Dr Ganney's top 10 tips for safer working software Spotlight on best educational practice in teaching
December 2016
September 2016
Main features : IPEM survey of the current status of PET/CT imaging
Magnetic resonance safety from gradients and pulses The software Lifecycle: common methodologies
June 2016 Main feature: Soldiers without arms: Limb prosthesis in WWI
Also featuring: Spotlight on educational practice in teaching MRI Safety
March 2016 Main Feature: The Hirtz compass, X-ray guided surgery in WWI
Also featuring: HSST, HSST equivalence route and HSSR Honours Nominations Technologist training, RCT and Registration
December 2015 Main Feature: Academic Careers, Successful PhD Study
Also Featuring
Scope Magazine Survey Clinical Technology Historical Feature
September 2015 Main Feature: When your life depends of software:
A Knowledge-based approach to guidelines New IPEM President National UK Audit of rotational IMRT
June 2015 Main Feature: Lack of Clinical Engineers... Are there any safety implications?
Biomedical Engineering course for Year 11 Pupils Meet your regional Chair Computed tomography guidance in imaging
March 2015 Main Feature: Service quality Benchmarking new systems
Delivering sonographic education and training Person-centred care Image processing and analysis using ImageJ
December 2014 Main Feature: Proton Therapy - hype, fiction and a few facts.
Radiotherapy extending hours three-part report Crossing the great divide The rise of nanotechnology, the new frontier in medicine.
September 2014
Main Feature: CPD - A golden opportunity or the bane of our lives?
Campaigning about quality of care? HSST Programmes Pathways towards CEng for clinical engineers
June 2014 Main Feature: Repair to Care: Helping in South Sudan
Failure Mode Analysis CT Gently App Dawn of Electronic Era Tomotherapy QA Survey IPEM's Research and Innovation Awards
March 2014 Main Feature: ICMP 2013: Report from Brighton
Also featuring: Results from the 2013 IPEM membership survey Bluffer's guide to 80000-1 Clinical engineers don't fade, they write novels!
December 2013 Main Feature: Edith Stoney MA, the first women medical physicist
Also featuring: Managing maternal medical equipment in Uganda Awarding bursaries and prizes for 2013 work The PMSIG members: so what's your day job? Science career aspirations I'm a scientist, get me out of here
September 2013 Main Feature: Singing in the Scanner
Also featuring: paRTner: UK-Africa partnership for radiotherapy Introducing Steve Keevil International Day of Medical Physics Making the most of your IPEM Membership
June 2013 Main feature: Half a century - Celebrating in Edinburgh Also featuring: Correcting interruptions in radiotherapy treatment Book now for ICMP2013 Medical equipment in developing countries
March 2013 Main feature: Oxford Experience: The success of MPEC 2012
Also featuring: Stereophotogrammetry for breast reconstruction Collaboration with India Ensuring patient safety with regular inspections?
December 2012 Main feature: Career journey: From CERN to radiotherapy
Bilateral mammographic breast tissue asymmetry Sweet and sour in Beijing Prizes to be awarded to members for work
September 2012 Main feature: Call for Engagement: Science and Parliament
A work of fiction?: Alice through the archive cupboard Radiating enthusiasm: IPEM at the 2012 Big Bang Science Fair
June 2012 Main feature: Hybrid imaging: The UK's first PET/MR scanner
Also featuring: IGRT survery: Results from the IPEM Working Party Historical feature: Adolf Fick and physiological physics
March 2012 Main feature:
History in London: Nineteenth-century medical physics Also featuring: Novel surgical design: Method to optimise bone locking implants Engineering World Health: Meeting reports about the company's work
December 2011 Main feature:
EMPEC2011: Meeting reports from Dublin Also featuring: Open-loop lung simulator: For ventilation of preterm infants Radium storage during WWII: The recovery of radium after bomb explosions
September 2011 Main feature: Pierre Pelletan: First medical physics textbook author Also featuring: Temperature measurement: New standards for instrumentation Video game training: A neuromuscular stimulation system
June 2011 Main feature: Yellow brick road: The path to CEng through IPEM Also featuring: Presentation to Parliament: Medical physics discussion meeting History of Medical Physics: Honouring Jean-Noël Halle's pioneering work
March 2011 Main feature: History Lesson: The start of medical physics Also featuring: Professional Registration: Engineering Council Accreditation The 2009 UK IMRT Audit: A snapshot of the status of IMRT in the UK
December 2010 Main feature: Special Deliveries: Sending radon and radium by post Also featuring: Remote patient monitoring: To improve patient care on general wards Simulator systems: For carrying out epicardial procedures
September 2010 Main feature: Testing Shielding : Its integrity for radiation facilities Also featuring: Pressure sores preventions : By neuromuscular stimulation WLAN interface for a Holter : A wireless communication
June 2010
Main feature: Emergency Plans: NAIR incident training exercises Also featuring: Moving on(line) : The launch of online Scope Big Bang Fair 2010 : IPEM promoting scientific careers
March 2010 Main feature: A work of art : medical physicist in MRI art Also featuring: Reliability Engineering : Part 2: case study of syringe drivers The case for revalidation : Two sides of the argument
December 2009 Main feature: Reliability engineering : Fundamentals of relability analysis
Also featuring: Unsung heroes of healthcare : Recognised for their valuable contribution Organising a joint meeting : Do you feel lucky, IPEM Member?
September 2009 Main feature: Radiotherapy Audit : A difficult but awesome challenge
Also featuring: Cardiac Activity Modelling : Using Maths to explain and predict activity Digital Seating Services : Designing wheelchair seating digitally
June 2009 Main feature: Heart and Breathing : IPEM's first PhD research study
Also featuring: Heart valve modelling : Potentials of mechanical valves High or low risk strategy? : Extending equipment service intervals
March 2009 Main feature: African Safari : Medical Engineering in Tanzania Also featuring: Therepeutic stimulation : Electrical nerve stimulation Planning algorithms : Photon and electron calculations
December 2008 Main feature: IPEM Annual Meeting : In-depth meeting report from Bath Also featuring: World class radiotherapy : Vision of a leading service for the future Radiotherapy staffing survey : Situations and standards in the UK
September 2008 Main feature: Ultrasonic detection
Also featuring: Image registration : Tutorial on medical imaging technique Research collaboration : Scottish consortium sharing brain research
June 2008 Main feature: Predicting Eye colour : Monte Carlo simulation
Also featuring: There goes the science bit : Speaking out about nonsensical science Sample size calculations : Use of statistics in clinical trials
March 2008 Main feature: University Research: Funding and assessment exercise Also featuring: K-space: the final frontier : The concept explained in this helpful tutorial
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