11th CT users group meeting: 26/11/2009

The 11th meeting of the CT Users Group was held in Belfast on 26/11/2009. The programme is shown below with links to pdf version of some of the talks.

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Meeting Programme

Morning session

10:05 Experiences commissioning the Toshiba Aquilion ONE 320 detector row CT scanner - N Weir, N Bate, L Nichol

10:25 Towards Optimisation of Routine CT Quality Control - Z. Martin-Rodriguez, P. Kenny, B. Byrne, L. Gaynor, C. O’Neill, and D. Costello

10:45 Adopting Dose Area Product (DAP) as a dose metric in computed tomography - N Weir

11:05 Applications of a new solid state dose profile meter in a range of CT systems - Shahed Khan, Alan Calverd

11:25 Some thoughts on CT dosimetry methods - C J Martin, D Gentle

11:45 Effective dose estimation for the CT component of SPECT/CT systems - Paul Charnock

Afternoon session

13:30 Ceretom Mobile CT Scanner in Neuro-Intensive Care; Aspects in Regulatory Compliance and Radiation Protection. - Greg Stevens

13:50 A comparison/review of radiation doses from modern multi-sliced CTA & conventional diagnostic angiography. Techniques methods and conversion factors. - Rob Loader

14:10 Image Quality and Dose in CT - Nicola Bate

14:30 Dose Reduction options in Cardiac CT - Phil Doyle

Afternoon session, continued

15:30 Calculating the patient dose from dental CT scans - Serge F.X. Seudieu and R. Anthony Reynolds

15:50 Effective Dose from Cone Beam CT Examinations in Dentistry - J Roberts

Round table

16:10 [Doses for facial trauma patients on conventional CT scanners and the new dental cone-beam CT scanners.][pdf13] - Jess Brisco

16:10 Typical doses from some of the more recent applications of multi slice CT - Julie Smyth