9th CT users group meeting: 23/10/2007

The 9th meeting of the CT Users Group was held in Birmingham on 23/10/2007. The programme is shown below with links to pdf version of some of the talks.

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Meeting Programme

Patient Dosimetry / Radiation Protection

09:50 Son of NRPB-SR250 - new Monte Carlo calculations at HPA-RPD for contemporary CT - Jan Jansen, HPA, Chilton

10:10 Initial Experiences of Dual Source Cardiac CT - Stuart Yates, Cambridge

10:30 The development of novel shielding and an improved modelling methodology in the consideration of the radiation protection aspects of mobile computed tomography - Trevelyan Foy and Nick Powell, Truro

Optimisation in CT

11:20 Optimisation from a radiologists perspective - Dr S Golding, Oxford

12:00 Optimisation in Cardiac CT - Giles Morrison, Sheffield

QA in CT

14:00 Dental Cone Beam CT - A review of our experiences - Philip Hollaway / Matt Pryor, Guildford

14:20 Setting up the AEC on a GE LightSpeed 16 CT scanner - David Platten, Northampton

14:40 A comparison of three methods for measuring slice thickness - Nicola Bate, Edinburgh

15:00 Automated Image Analysis - Report from the working party - Elly Castellano, Royal Marsden, London

15:15 IQWorks - preparing for release and how you can get involved - Ed McDonagh - Royal Marsden, London

Patient Dosimetry / Round Table

16:00 A dose problem - Jane Shekhdar, Mount Vernon, London

16:30 GammexRMI CT Phantom, 438 (ACR CT Accreditation phantom, 464) - Sue Edyvean, Jim Weston, ImPACT