13th CT users group meeting: 05/10/2011

The 13th meeting of the CT Users Group was held in Sheffield on 05/10/2011. The programme is shown below with links to pdf version of some of the talks.

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Meeting Programme

Reconstruction algorithms

10:10 Testing the performance of adaptive iterative image reconstruction on a 64-slice CT scanner - Stephen Gilroy

10:30 Iterative reconstruction on Siemens CT scanners: noise, noise power spectrum, spatial resolution and low contrast detectability - Nicholas Keat

10:50 Iterative Reconstruction with Philips iDose: characterizing image quality in attempting to realise its potential - Julie Smyth

Scanner Testing

11:10 Testing CT AEC systems with a purpose built test object - Lynn Bateman

11:30 A tale of three (identical) scanners - Gareth Iball

11:50 Noise & HU Measurements during routine level B QA: Comparison of data with recommended tolerances - Paul Charnock

Optimisation and Dose

13:40 Effective dose for CT head scans with a modulated tube current - John Loveland

14:00 Patient dose assessment of CT perfusion scanning at the RSCH - Lesley Leavesley

14:20 Effective dose conversion factors for dental cone beam computed tomography using MCNP5 - Christie Theodorakou

15:10 Validation of a large scale audit technique for CT dose optimisation - Tim Wood

15:30 First experiences with Siemens CARE kV - Elizabeth Crawford

15:50 Generic monitoring of scan protocols in CT - Jurgen Jacobs

16:10 EMI video “The Scanner Story” covering the development and early years of medical x-ray CT scanning - * *

16:40 Automated gathering of CT data and introduction to the IHE radiation exposure monitoring profile - Ed McDonagh

16:50 Progress of the DRSIG’s wide beam dose measurement working party - David Platten