8th CT users group meeting: 16/11/2006

The 8th meeting of the CT Users Group was held in Nottingham on 16/11/2006. The programme is shown below with links to pdf version of some of the talks.

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Meeting Programme

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

12:10-12:40Business meeting - ROOM SHIELDING

13:50-14:10The black art of CT room design: comparison of BIR and NCRP shielding methods for two multislice CT scanners - Julie Smyth - Ninewells Hospital, Dundee

14:10-14:30Shielding of multi-slice computed tomography facilities - Noirin Sheahan - St James’s Hospital, Dublin

Automated Image Analysis

14:30-14:40Automated 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

15:50-15:55Automated 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