12th CT users group meeting: 14/10/2010

The 12th meeting of the CT Users Group was held in London on 14/10/2010. The programme is shown below with links to pdf version of some of the talks.

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Meeting Programme

10:50 CT Dose calculations for individual patients - what you should know - Elly Castellano

11:10 Dual Energy Imaging and the use of MOSFETs in estimating organ doses in CT - Robert Loader

11:40 Practical investigations into using a small ion chamber and realistic phantom length for CT dosimetry - Matthew Dunn

13:30 Use of lead shielding for adult chest CT - Gareth Iball

13:50 Help-why are our doses so high? - An exercise in CT dose optimisation - Maria Kazantzi, Maria Lewis

14:10 CT Helical Head Scanning - Peter McGookin

14:30 Large scale audit of CT using data from hospital Radiology Information Systems (RIS) - Paul Charnock

15:30 Flash CT of the paediatric thorax: radiation dose audit of default scan protocols - Elly Castellano

15:50 Comparison of the function and performance of CT AEC systems - Emily Field

16:00 An introduction to the Third UK National CT Dose Survey - Stuart Meeson

16:20 Eye Doses in Head CT; Sequential Vs Spiral - Mathew Daniel / Anne Davis

10:50 Prospective vs retrospective CTA - a quick look at patient dose and image quality - Hannah Urbanczyk