20th CT users group meeting: 11/10/2018

The 20th meeting of the CT Users Group was held in Lincoln on 11/10/2018. The programme is shown below with links to pdf version of some of the talks.

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Meeting Programme

Session 1 - Paedatric Imaging

10:00 Paediatric Heads - What dose on which scanner - and then what? - Mike Holubinka

10:20 Using patient dose management systems for paediatric CT patient dose audit - David Platten

10:40 CT Optimisation for Paediatric SPECT/CT Examinations - Sarah Bell

Session 2 - Radiotherapy

11:20 The Use of PCXMC in the Optimisation of Pelvic CBCT in Radiotherapy - Megan Clark

11:40 Can CT reconstruction algorithms be changed to improve image quality in Radiotherapy CT planning scans? - Anne Davis

12:00 Image quality improvements for radiotherapy planning of head and neck cancer patients - Nicola Mullins

Session 3 - Quality Assurance

13:30 First impressions of the Gammex Mercury 4.0 AEC Phantom - Debbie Harries

13:50 Six years of AEC testing - what have we learned? - Gareth Iball

14:10 Automatic retrieval of QA images from PACS - David Platten

14:30 Testing AEC of CT scanners - a snapshot on the current practice - Ian Honey

Session 4 - Dosimetry & New Techniques

15:10 Patients are not made of PMMA - The use of water-equivalent diameter for calculating size-specific dose estimates for adult body CT examinations - Kate Sexton

15:30 Estimating patient weight from body CT images - how accurate are the results? - Sandra Sarmento

15:40 Variable Helical Parameters - do you feel the need for speed? - Sarah Guzvica

16:10 IPEM paediatric working party - audit using dose data from dose management systems - Matthew Dunn

16:10 IPEM Radiotherapy audit- final results and CBCT audit - Tim Wood