Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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‘I should have seen her face at least once’: parent’s and healthcare providers’ experiences and practices of care after stillbirth in Kabul province, Afghanistan
Published 2021Objective This study aimed to explore bereaved parents’ and healthcare providers experiences of care after stillbirth. Study design Qualitative in-depth interviews with 55 women, men, female elders, healthcare providers ...Open AccessArticle -
Beyond duty: Medical “heroes” and the Covid-19 pandemic
Published 2020When infectious disease outbreaks strike, health facilities acquire labels such as “war zones” and “battlefields” and healthcare professionals become “heroes” on the “front line.” But unlike soldiers, healthcare professionals ...Open AccessArticle -
Simulated multileaf collimator tracking for stereotactic liver radiotherapy guided by kilovoltage intrafraction monitoring: Dosimetric gain and target overdose trends
Published 2020Purpose: To investigate the potential benefit of multileaf collimator (MLC) tracking guided by kilovoltage intrafraction monitoring (KIM) during stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) in the liver, and to understand trends ...Open AccessArticle -
Optimising lung imaging for cancer radiation therapy
Published 2020Effective radiotherapy is dependent on being able to (i) visualise the tumour clearly, and (ii) deliver the correct dose to the cancerous tissue, whilst sparing the healthy tissue as much as possible. In the presence of ...Open AccessArticle -
Real-Time Image Guided Ablative Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy: Results From the TROG 15.01 SPARK Trial
Published 2020Purpose: Kilovoltage intrafraction monitoring (KIM) is a novel software platform implemented on standard radiation therapy systems and enabling real-time image guided radiation therapy (IGRT). In a multi-institutional ...Open AccessArticle