Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine
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The Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) is a professional organisation for medical physicists, biomedical engineers and allied professionals in Australia
and New Zealand
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The ACPSEM promotes education and research into the biomedical applications of physics, mathematics, engineering and computing. The ACPSEM also facilitates training and professional accreditation for practising medical physicists in Australia and New Zealand.
The ACPSEM provides the scientific journal Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine as a forum for the publication of original relevant scientific research.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
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The ACPSEM promotes education and research into the biomedical applications of physics, mathematics, engineering and computing. The ACPSEM also facilitates training and professional accreditation for practising medical physicists in Australia and New Zealand.
The ACPSEM provides the scientific journal Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine as a forum for the publication of original relevant scientific research.
See also
- Medical PhysicsMedical physicsMedical physics is the application of physics to medicine. It generally concerns physics as applied to medical imaging and radiotherapy, although a medical physicist may also work in many other areas of healthcare...
- Biomedical EngineeringBiomedical engineeringBiomedical Engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology. This field seeks to close the gap between engineering and medicine: It combines the design and problem solving skills of engineering with medical and biological sciences to improve...
- American Association for Physicists in Medicine
- Institute of Physics and Engineering in MedicineInstitute of Physics and Engineering in MedicineThe Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine is the United Kingdom's professional body and learned society for physicists and engineers within the field of medicine...