Course

The CTUG training course takes place every two years on the day before our annual meeting. The course is an introduction to the physics of CT, covering a wide range of topics with Physicist and Radiographer representation. It is designed to be open to anyone, but to be particularly useful for trainee Technicians and Physicists (STP, route two etc) or those wanting a CT theory refresher.

The third CTUG training course will be on 21st October 2026, which is the day before the CTUG 2026 meeting at St Martin’s House conference centre in Leicester.

The programme has not yet been finalised, but the content is likely to follow closely the progamme of the previous course in 2024 (see below). We’ll send out details on the online registration process via the mail list when the course and meeting are finalised.

The intention is to run this course at every other CTUG meeting, so the next one is expected to be in 2028.

Third CTUG training Course Preliminary Programme

08:45 Registration - Tea & Coffee

09:10 Welcome and Introduction - Laurence King

Session 1 - Foundations

09:15 Hardware components and scanner construction - Nicholas Keat

10:00 Image reconstruction - Nicholas Keat

10:30 Exposure parameters, tube current modulation - David Platten

11:00 Tea & Coffee

Session 2 - Patients and safety

11:15 Patient dose estimations - Stuart Yates

12:00 Practical aspects - David Biddle

12:15 Radiation safety and room shielding - Stuart Yates

12:45 Lunch

Session 3 - Quality

13:45 Image artefacts - David Platten

14:15 Optimisation of dose and image quality - Laurence King

14:45 Quality control tests - Katie Howard

15:15 Tea & Coffee

Session 4 - Specialised techniques

15:30 Cardiac Imaging - Laurence King

15:45 Fluoroscopy and respiratory gating - Katie Howard

16:00 Dual energy - Laurence King

16:30 Multidisciplinary imaging - Katie Howard

17:00 Close