CT Users Group

The Ninth CT Users group meeting was held on 23rd October 2007, at the Postgraduate Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.

Our invited speaker for this year's meeting was Dr Stephen Golding, Consultant Radiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Dr Golding is a rare breed of radiologist - one who is willing to admit in public that he is interested in radiation protection. Dr Golding is the one UK-based radiologist who co-authored the 2004 CT Quality Criteria, and maintains an active research interest in CT safety and efficacy.

Online versions of most of the talks are available below by clicking on the icons to the left of each presentation.

The programme was as follows:

Time	Links		Details
Patient Dosimetry / Radiation Protection
0950			Son of NRPB-SR250 - new Monte Carlo calculations at HPA-RPD for contemporary CT Jan Jansen, HPA, Chilton
1010			Initial Experiences of Dual Source Cardiac CT Stuart Yates, Cambridge
1030			The development of novel shielding and an improved modelling methodology in the consideration of the radiation protection aspects of mobile computed tomography Trevelyan Foy and Nick Powell, Truro
Optimisation in CT
1120			Optimisation from a radiologists perspective Dr S Golding, Oxford
1200			Optimisation in Cardiac CT Giles Morrison, Sheffield
QA in CT
1400			Dental Cone Beam CT - A review of our experiences Philip Hollaway / Matt Pryor, Guildford
1420			Setting up the AEC on a GE LightSpeed 16 CT scanner David Platten, Northampton
1440			A comparison of three methods for measuring slice thickness Nicola Bate, Edinburgh
1500			Automated Image Analysis - Report from the working party Elly Castellano, Royal Marsden, London
1515			IQWorks - preparing for release and how you can get involved Ed McDonagh - Royal Marsden, London
Patient Dosimetry / Round Table
1600			A dose problem Jane Shekhdar, Mount Vernon, London
1630			GammexRMI CT Phantom, 438 (ACR CT Accreditation phantom, 464) Sue Edyvean, Jim Weston, ImPACT