{"id":155,"date":"2013-03-08T14:53:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T05:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/?p=155"},"modified":"2013-03-08T14:53:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T05:23:43","slug":"mdri-member-receives-vice-chancellor-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/2013\/03\/08\/mdri-member-receives-vice-chancellor-award\/","title":{"rendered":"MDRI member receives Vice-Chancellor Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MDRI member, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/egon.perilli\">Dr Egon Perilli<\/a>, recently received a Flinders University&#8217;s 2012 Vice-Chancellor Award for Early Career Researchers, for his outstanding contribution to Flinders University&#8217;s research. This is fantastic recognition for Egon and the MDRI would like to congratulate him on his success.<\/p>\n<p><em>More information about Egon&#8217;s research:<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong>On the path to better bone health<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Australia\u2019s population ages, degenerative bone diseases such as osteoporosis and osteoarthritis will take an increasing toll on the nation\u2019s healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p>In a bid to prevent the burden of disease, researchers from Flinders University are using advanced microscopic techniques to better understand how and why bone loss occurs in the elderly.<\/p>\n<p>Chief investigator Dr Egon Perilli said a special X-ray method known as a micro-computed tomography, or micro-CT, is enabling his team to analyse the complex structures of the skeletal system, including bone density and the thin internal features of the bone, in 3D.<\/p>\n<p>He said the technique allows researchers to characterise the \u201cmicroarchitecture\u201d of the bone at a level which cannot be seen with conventional scanners in clinics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConventionally, to see images at the same level, you have to take a biopsy, literally slice it up and look at it under a microscope but when you cut it up you destroy the 3D features,\u201d Dr Perilli, Senior Research Fellow based in the School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the other hand, micro-CT allows us to preserve the 3D structure of the bone biopsy because you don\u2019t need to cut it up to examine it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>By understanding how bone loss occurs in the elderly, Dr Perilli said he hoped to contribute to develop better diagnostic tools to identify patients at-risk of fractures while creating advances in the prevention and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story click <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-news\/2013\/03\/08\/on-the-path-to-better-bone-health\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=on-the-path-to-better-bone-health\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MDRI member, Dr Egon Perilli, recently received a Flinders University&#8217;s 2012 Vice-Chancellor Award for Early Career Researchers, for his outstanding contribution to Flinders University&#8217;s research. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}