The CT users group

We are a UK based group for people with an interest in medical CT scanning. Our main aim is to share experience and knowledge relating to CT scanning with each other, as well as to provide an educational forum. We formed in 1999, and are mainly hospital physicists, but we also count radiographers and radiologists amongst our number.

More than 200 people from all over the world are now involved with the group - if you want any more details or are interested in joining, please contact us or subscribe to our mail list.

January 2012: New Chair for the CTUG

Steve Mutch has been voted as the new Chair for the CTUG. Thanks very much to Ian Negus for your hard work as the previous incumbent, and all the best to Steve.

Thirteenth CTUG meeting - Wednesday 5th October 2011

The thirteenth CT Users group meeting was held on the 5th of October 2011, at St Mary's Conference Centre, Sheffield. About 80 attendees enjoyed an excellent day of talks and discussion.

It is now possible to view pdf versions of the talks from the meeting, check out the programme for the links..

Third CT dose and practice survey

HPA is conducting a third survey of CT practice covering the whole of the UK. The aims are to assess changes since the last survey in 2003, provide guidance for some recently established examinations, update existing examination specific national reference doses, and provide a baseline for potential follow-up optimisation studies. Follow the link for more details on how to participate in this important survey.

The results from the previous NRPB/CTUG/ImPACT CT survey was published online by the NRPB as report NRPB-W67, 'Doses from Computed Tomography (CT) Examinations in the UK - 2003 Review' (free download).

IQWorks - automated image analysis software for medical physicists

As part of an ongoing interest in automated analysis of CT (and other digital modality) images, CTUG is proud to be involved with the development and support of IQWorks.

This project aims to build on the fantastic work by Andrew Reilly as part of his PhD research at Edinburgh University. The software can now be downloaded, and broader input into its development as an open source project is encouraged. Follow the link above to find out more!

Previous meetings

Click on any of the following links for more details of each meeting. More recent meetings have pdf versions of presentations that can be viewed online.