18th CT users group meeting: 20/10/2016

The 18th meeting of the CT Users Group was held in Manchester on 20/10/2016. The programme is shown below with links to pdf version of some of the talks.

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Meeting Programme

Patient and Staff Doses

10:00 Establishment of Local Diagnostic Reference Levels (LDRLs) for Nuclear Medicine CT - Michael Katsidzira Ngonidzashe

10:20 An audit of likely lens doses to patients receiving repeat exposures through the orbits – informing the practitioner - Kate Sprake

10:40 Staff and Patient Dosimetry in CT Guided Ablations - Rob Loader

Audit and Dose Monitoring Software

11:00 OpenREM update - Ed McDonagh

11:10 CT Patient dose audit with OpenREM - David Platten

Radiotherapy

12:00 CT Number Accuracy Analysis for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning Imaging - Julian Liu

12:20 Dose to patients from X-ray imaging in Radiotherapy - launch of another IPEM working party - Tim Wood

12:40 4D-CT: Dosimetry and image quality assessment in a moving target - John Loveland

CT QA

14:30 SPICE-CT - quality control analysis software - John Loveland

14:50 CT Quality Assurance at the coal face - Jaddy Czajka

15:10 Experiences of using the CelT phantom for CT Quality Assurance - Jaddy Czajka

Round table items

16:00 AxREM update on behalf of DoH expert working party regarding the recent COMARE report - Dawn Phillips (GE/AxREM)

16:10 Helical slice sensitivity profiles with Siemens scanners when scanning a thin foil - Ed McDonagh

16:20 Performance evaluation of AECs on a Siemens CT scanner - Fiona Wall