An Australian first: virtual treatment room
In an Australian first, a virtual radiotherapy treatment room will be used to train student radiation therapists in the safe and effective delivery of high doses of radiation to affected cancer sites in the body.
The University of Newcastle will be home to the nation’s first virtual linear accelerator machine, which mimics the clinical radiation treatment technology currently used to treat cancer patients in Australian radiation oncology centres.
Life-size 3D visualisations of cancer patients, their internal organs and their cancer sites, are projected onto a virtual radiation therapy treatment machine with students able to drive the unit to deliver virtual treatments.
