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Read article: NHS England’s investment in big data insights will fast-track innovation in radiation oncology
Elekta’s cloud-based software platform ProKnow is being used to centralize NHS England’s radiotherapy data while simultaneously opening up access to that data among treatment centres across the co...
Read article: Bridging the knowledge gap on AI and machine-learning technologies
Medical physicists explored a range of education and training scenarios for AI and machine learning at last month’s ESTRO Annual Congress
Read article: Deep learning enables fast and accurate proton dose calculations
Steve Jiang describes how deep learning can help meet the key requirements of dose calculations for proton therapy
Read article: New cylindrical water scanning system unlocks efficiencies in beam commissioning, annual QA
The SunSCAN 3D cylindrical water tank helps medical physics teams work smarter when commissioning their radiotherapy systems and carrying out annual machine QA checks
Read article: Early adopters position themselves for quantum advantage
The UK's National Quantum Computing Centre has launched the SparQ applications discovery programme to help organizations explore the potential of use cases for quantum computing
Read article: Bleximo builds its competitive advantage with an application-specific approach
The key to achieving ‘quantum advantage’ lies in the co-design of algorithms and hardware for a new generation of superconducting quantum computers
Read article: Women in electrochemistry put science first
A 50-strong team of female guest editors has produced a focus issue of the Journal of The Electrochemical Society that highlights the scientific contributions of women in electrochemistry
Read article: The quantum hype cycle, revisited
Will quantum computing really be “bigger than fire”, as a speaker at a recent conference claimed? Margaret Harris examines the evidence
Read article: A glimpse into the future of radiation therapy
The ESTRO 2022 closing session saw five experts debate which innovations will have the greatest impact in radiotherapy by 2030
Read article: Innovation in optical interferometry: the secret of success in nanopositioning QA
Nanopositioning specialist Queensgate and the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have forged a productive collaboration yielding a good-practice implementation model for Queensgate’s in-house...
