Facilities
Our students and staff have access to the University's specialist and state of the art learning and recreational facilities. These include the Clinical Simulation Laboratory. School-specific resources include a movement performance laboratory, clinical ergonomics laboratory, x-ray suite, radiotherapy treatment planning system, and a podaitry clinic (based at Glasgow's Southern General Hospital).
Radiography
The Division of Radiography is able to offer staff and students access to a self-contained X-ray facility and a radiation treatment planning laboratory, all within the division.
X-ray Suite
Installed in 2000, the X-ray room is primarily used for teaching and research purposes and allows the diagnostic students to get hands on experience before visiting practice placements. The room also houses an ultrasound machine which is also used for practical sessions.
The unit was only recently upgraded again include to computerised radiography, ensuring our students continue to have access to cutting-edge technology.
Radiotherapy Treatment Planning System
The Division of Radiography has purchased a 3-d computerized radiotherapy treatment planning system known as Oncentra Treatment Planning (OTP). The OTP system uses 3-D CT (computerized tomography) and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) images to create an individual plan of radiotherapy treatment, facilitated by the production of a "virtual patient". This is used as a prescription for the treatment of cancer patients in a clinical setting.
Hands-on experience
The OTP system which is situated in the new Radiotherapy Planning Laboratory in the Govan Mbeki Building is one of the most recent to the radiotherapy manufacturer market and allows you to practice "hands-on" with "dummy" patients thus preparing you for clinical placement and ultimately clinical practice.
Our students are now being exposed to the most advanced radiotherapy planning techniques by using this system. It has the capabilities to perform the most recent developments in cancer treatment such as intensity modulated radiotherapy, image fusion and virtual simulation as well as the more established external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy modalities.
The students have open access to OTP and are able to book a terminal when it is not being utilised for teaching. Feedback has shown that the system is extremely popular.
