17th CT users group meeting: 15/12/2015

The 17th meeting of the CT Users Group was held in Chilton on 15/12/2015. The programme is shown below with links to pdf version of some of the talks.

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Meeting Programme

Invited speaker

10:00 Dose metrics and dosimetry in CBCT and how they relate to conventional MSCT - Jonas Andersson, Umeå University, Sweden

CT Quality Assurance

10:35 Easy-QA - A system for importing & monitoring Siemens Somatom Force Daily QA data - Mike Holubinka, Great Ormond St Hospital

11:00 A novel phantom to evaluate longitudinal and angular automatic tube current modulation (ATCM) in CT - Deborah Merzan, Karolinska University Hospital

Dose Audit

11:55 An Update on the BSCI Cardiac CT Dose Audit - Elly Castellano/Ed Nicol, British Society of Cardiovascular CT

12:20 Experiences of using GE DoseWatch Software for CT Dose Management. - Sarah Wayte, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire

12:45 IPEM working party recommendations on hybrid CT DRLs - Maria Burniston, Royal Free Hospital

Lunch and poster session

13:10 Bespoke software for rapid compilation and analysis of daily automated CT QA results - Laurence King, Royal Marsden

Optimisation

14:25 The effect of topogram orientation on dose and image quality - A. Weir, NHS Lothian

14:50 Mathematical observers for image quality optimisation: Results of a benchmark protocol with a Channelized Hotelling Observer - Nick Ryckx, CHUV Lausanne

15:15 Paediatric CT protocol optimisation of the abdo-pelvis region - Keith Schembri, University of Malta / Leeds

15:40 Balancing the Clinical CT Protocols via Noise Detection and Isolation - Julian Liu, Aspen Healthcare

16:05 Noise Power Spectrum in CT - Anne Hill, Bristol