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Meetings » Thirteenth CTUG Meeting
Thirteenth CT users group meeting
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.
pdf versions of the talks from the meeting are now available from the links in the programme below.
Please note: information provided in the slides is not peer-reviewed, is for educational use only and is explicitly not to be used for sales or marketing purposes. Any of the authors can be contacted, via the CTUG if no contact information is provided in the slides, to discuss the contents.
| Time | Links | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reconstruction algorithms | |||
| 10:10-10:30 |  | Testing the performance of adaptive iterative image reconstruction on a 64-slice CT scanner Stephen Gilroy | |
| 10:30-10:50 | | Iterative reconstruction on Siemens CT scanners: noise, noise power spectrum, spatial resolution and low contrast detectability Nicholas Keat | |
| 10:50-11:10 | | Iterative Reconstruction with Philips iDose: characterizing image quality in attempting to realise its potential Julie Smyth | |
| Scanner Testing | |||
| 11:10-11:30 | Testing CT AEC systems with a purpose built test object Lynn Bateman | ||
| 11:30-11:50 | A tale of three (identical) scanners Gareth Iball | ||
| 11:50-12:10 | | Noise & HU Measurements during routine level B QA: Comparison of data with recommended tolerances Paul Charnock | |
| Optimisation and Dose | |||
| 13:40-14:00 | | Effective dose for CT head scans with a modulated tube current John Loveland | |
| 14:00-14:20 | | Patient dose assessment of CT perfusion scanning at the RSCH Lesley Leavesley | |
| 14:20-14:40 | Effective dose conversion factors for dental cone beam computed tomography using MCNP5 Christie Theodorakou | ||
| 15:10-15:30 | | Validation of a large scale audit technique for CT dose optimisation Tim Wood | |
| 15:30-15:50 | First experiences with Siemens CARE kV Elizabeth Crawford | ||
| 15:50-16:10 | | Generic monitoring of scan protocols in CT Jurgen Jacobs | |
| History | |||
| 16:10-16:40 | EMI video "The Scanner Story" covering the development and early years of medical x-ray CT scanning | ||
| Round table items | |||
| 16:40-16:50 | | Automated gathering of CT data and introduction to the IHE radiation exposure monitoring profile Ed McDonagh | |
| 16:50-17:00 | | Progress of the DRSIG's wide beam dose measurement working party David Platten | |