19th CT users group meeting: 19/10/2017

The 19th meeting of the CT Users Group was held in Bristol on 19/10/2017. The programme is shown below with links to pdf version of some of the talks.

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Meeting Programme

Dose Audits

10:00 Dose to patients from X-ray imaging in Radiotherapy – an update from the IPEM working party - Tim Wood / Anne Davis

10:25 Doses from Cervical Spine Computed Tomography (CT) examinations in the UK - John Holroyd

10:50 The BSCI CT cardiac angiography audit - Elly Castellano

Optimisation

11:45 Protocol optimisation: results from a CT optimisation group - Katherine Dewis

12:10 Optimisation of CT Scan Planar Radiographs - Laura Cluny

Equipment Performance

14:00 Measuring helical slice sensitivity profiles on 128-slice Siemens scanners - Jamie Dormand

14:25 Application of an anatomical phantom for testing of CT Automatic Exposure Control (AEC) systems - Ben Shaw

14:50 Do we really know what the AEC is doing for miscentered patients? A case report - S Cournane

Round table items

15:45 CT scanner noise issues - Ruth Bradley

15:55 Factors affecting the task specific MTF in CT - Naomi Clayton

16:05 Creating a craniosynostosis protocol - Pedrum Kamali-Zonouzi