15th CT users group meeting: 07/11/2013

The 15th meeting of the CT Users Group was held in Coventry on 07/11/2013. The programme is shown below with links to pdf version of some of the talks.

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Meeting Programme

Assessing radiation and risk

09:15 Progress on the normalised organ dose Monte Carlo calculations for modern CT scanners with the ICRP-110 Adult phantoms - Jan Jansen

09:40 New scanner models and the ImPACT CTDosimetry spreadsheet: tips to match scanners for your own use, and a strategy to review multi-centre data for incorporation into a new version of the spreadshee - Sue Edyvean

10:05 Energy spectra and transmission characteristics of scattered radiation from computed tomography: a Monte Carlo study - David Platten

10:30 Review of risks to radiologists' fingers during Interventional CT - a case study - Anne Davis

Protocol optimisation strategies

11:25 Investigating the potential for patient dose saving in CT using auto-kV and mA - Mark Worrall

11:50 Optimisation in CT in the Major Trauma Setting - Peter McGookin

12:15 Philips CT protocol optimisation: An update - Tim Wood

14:00 Dual energy CT for the assessment of coronary artery disease and cardiac perfusion. Initial observations and assessment in phantoms and patients - Rob Loader and Carl Roobottom

14:25 Implementation of Cone-beam CT imaging for Radiotherapy treatment localisation - Andrew Bridges

Quality Control and Dose Auditing

15:15 Assessing AEC performance of CT systems using a custom-designed phantom with a focus on positioning and centring of the patient within the scanner - Ruth Nicol

15:40 ‘One Stop CT QA’; Routine QA with the CelT phantom - Lynn Bateman

16:05 Introduction to OpenREM - Radiation Exposure Monitoring tools for the physicist - Ed McDonagh

16:30 BSCI audit of cardiac CT radiation doses - Elly Castellano

16:40 Assessing dose from CT Scan Projection Radiographs using a Patient Dose Calibrator device - Jaddy Czajka