De nombreux hôpitaux utilisent la tomographie par ordinateur (TO) à faisceau conique et guidée par l'image pour offrir des traitements qualitatifs aux patients atteints d'un cancer. Bien que la TO à faisceau conique génère de bonnes images volumétriques, leur reconstruction prend un certain temps, ce qui limite ses applications puisque, dans de nombreux cas, on […]

De nombreux travailleurs de la région de Sarnia ont été exposés à l’amiante par leur métier. Une étude est en cours au Princess Margaret Hospital à Toronto pour tenter de dépister de façon précoce des maladies pulmonaires chez ces travailleurs en utilisant l’imagerie de tomodensitométrie du thorax à faible dose. Le programme du stage évaluera […]

Detecting ovarian cancer is, in general, difficult because of the lack of effective screening tests. If the disease is discovered when confined to the ovaries, surgery alone is curative in more than 90% of patients – however, in most patients, diagnosis only occurs after dissemination beyond the ovaries. In these cases, a combined treatment of […]

Many hospitals use image-guided cone-beam computed tomography (CT) to provide qualitative treatment for cancer patients. Although cone-beam CT provides good volumetric images, it takes a while to reconstruct them, which limits its applications because in many cases, real-time spatial information about patient’s internal structures is needed. To overcome this slow image reconstruction problem and missing […]

Many workers in the Sarnia region have had past occupational exposure to asbestos. Currently, a study is under way at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto to attempt to detect early stage lung disease in these workers using low dose computed tomography imaging of the chest. The internship will evaluate the relationship between asbestos and […]

The focus of this project will be to model and optimize the scheduling of clinics at PMH-assigning clinics to clinic areas and clinic timeslots. The objective will be to improve the current schedule with respect to key performance metrics. These metrics will include clinic overtime, the equality of the distribution of demand on shared resources […]