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Meetings » 8th CTUG Meeting
Eighth CT users group meeting
The eighth meeting of the CT Users Group was held on Thursday 16th November 2006 at the Postgraduate Centre, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham.
Kicking off a diverse and provocative programme, we were delighted to have an invited talk from Koos Geleijns, of Leiden University Medical Centre.
The full program is shown below, pdfs of most of the talks can be seen by clicking the relevant links.
Eighth CTUG meeting programme:
| Time | Links | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|
| CT OPTIMISATION | |||
| 09:50-10:20 |  |  | Invited talk: Justification and optimisation of CT within a scientific framework Koos Geleijns - Leiden University Medical Center |
| 10:20-10:40 | | | The use of computer simulation to facilitate observer studies in CT optimisation - a pilot study Andy Rogers, Adam Parker, Mark Wilson - City Hospital, Nottingham |
| CT DOSIMETRY | |||
| 11:10-11.30 | | | Dose measurement in cone beam CT - how appropriate is the 10 cm pencil chamber? Maria Lewis - ImPACT, London |
| 11:30-11:50 | | | Calculation of effective doses for radiotherapy cone-beam CT and Nuclear Medicine Hawkeye CT Laura Sawyer - Royal United Hospital, Bath |
| 11:50-12:10 | | | Use of lead shielding for foetal dose reduction in CT pulmonary angiography Gareth Iball - Leeds General Infirmary |
| 12:10-12:40 | Business meeting | ||
| ROOM SHIELDING | |||
| 13:50-14:10 | The black art of CT room design: comparison of BIR and NCRP shielding methods for two multislice CT scanners Julie Smyth - Ninewells Hospital, Dundee | ||
| 14:10-14:30 | Shielding of multi-slice computed tomography facilities Noirin Sheahan - St James’s Hospital, Dublin | ||
| AUTOMATED IMAGE ANALYSIS | |||
| 14:30-14:40 | Automated image analysis - what the people say Elly Castellano - Royal Marsden, London | ||
| 14:40-15:00 | | | Automated image analysis - options for implementation Ed McDonagh - Royal Marsden, London |
| 15:00-15:20 | | | A uniform software platform for automatically analysing CT test images Andrew Reilly - Western General Hospital, Edinburgh |
| ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION | |||
| 15:50-15:55 | Automated image analysis - your vote Elly Castellano - Royal Marsden, London | ||
| 15:55-16:05 | | | Truncation artefacts in PET/CT Rainer Hinz - Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre, Manchester |
| 16:05-16:15 | Experiences with SPECT/CT Bruce Walmsley - Guy’s Hospital, London | ||
| 16:15-16:25 | | | QA for MSCT - beyond IPEM 91 Sue Edyvean, ImPACT, London |