The CT users group.

We are a UK based group for people with an interest in medical CT scanning. Our main aim is to share experience and knowledge relating to CT scanning with each other, as well as to provide an educational forum. We formed in 1999, and are mainly hospital physicists, but we also count radiographers and radiologists amongst our number.

More than 100 people are now involved with the group - if you want any more details or are interested in joining, please contact us or subscribe to our mail list.

IQWorks - automated image analysis software for medical physicists

As part of an ongoing interest in automated analysis of CT (and other digital modality) images, CTUG is proud to be involved with the development and support of IQWorks.

This project aims to build on the fantastic work by Andrew Reilly as part of his PhD research at Edinburgh University. An initial binary version of the software will be available to download soon, and broader input into its development as an open source project will follow. Follow the link above to find out more!

Previous CTUG meeting - 23rd October 2007

The last meeting of the CT Users Group was held on 23rd October 2007, at the Postgraduate Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.

The programme, and pdfs of most of the presentations from the day can be viewed on-line.

Our invited speaker for this year's meeting was Dr Stephen Golding, Consultant Radiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Dr Golding is a rare breed of radiologist - one who is willing to admit in public that he is interested in radiation protection. Dr Golding is the one UK-based radiologist who co-authored the 2004 CT Quality Criteria, and maintains an active research interest in CT safety and efficacy.

CT dose and practice survey

The NRPB/CTUG/ImPACT CT survey has been published online by the NRPB as report NRPB-W67, 'Doses from Computed Tomography (CT) Examinations in the UK - 2003 Review' (free download). Click here for more details on the dose survey.

Previous meetings

Click on any of the following links for more details of each meeting. More recent meetings have .pdf versions of presentations that can be viewed online.