Radiology Procedure Revisions - November 2010 Please note that the following two documents have been revised, HEYHRAD01- Referrers, Practitioners & Operators, and, HEYHRAD03 - Assessment of Patient Dose. To view the revised document go to the HEY Radiology Department Specific Documents section within the Advice Section of Hullrad.
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Building Award
(15/09/2011)
The Queen’s Centre for Oncology and Haematology at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust will be presented with the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark at midday on Saturday 24 September 2011. This award recognises and rewards good practice and high standards within the physical environment of a cancer care building.
Trust Chairman Scilla Smith and Chief Executive, Phil Morley will receive the award from Lady Halifax and Audrey Bradford, Macmillan General Manager for the East Midlands and Northern England. The presentation will take place as part of the Queen’s Centre Open Day when members of the public are invited to come to the Centre at Castle Hill Hospital to meet teams of healthcare professionals and have a look around the unit.
The award was developed with involvement from people affected by cancer who talked about what really made a difference to them when they were having treatment and support for their cancer.
The Queen’s Centre achieved a Level 5 Quality Award, which is the highest level awarded.
The Macmillan Quality Environment Mark will help to ensure that people affected by cancer are treated and supported in physical environments of uniformly high quality. The scheme is open to any healthcare providers.
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Gary Liney ,PhD, our specialist Principal Physicist for Oncology Imaging and Radiotherapy Physics at the Queen’s Centre for Oncology, publishes a new edition of his A-Z guide to MRI.
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This second edition of Gary Liney’s MRI from A-Z, much expanded from the first edition, is both a reflection of and an apt companion for the dramatic growth in the field of MRI. The MRI trainee and the extensively experienced MRI practitioner alike will find this A-Z of the field, with 1,300 entries and 100 illustrations, to be an indispensable reference tool.
Providing the reader with concise, clear and eloquent definitions of MRI terminology, this book is both highly practical and a pleasure to read.
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The document may be purchased and viewed by clicking following the link above.
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Theo Tulley
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It is with regret that we learnt of the death at the end of September 2010 of Mr Theo Tulley, the original Hull NHS medical physicist.
Theo was one of the founding members of the Hospital Physicist Associations' in 1943 (1), and chief physicist in Hull & East Yorkshire from his appointment in 1947 to his retirement in 1981.
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Mr T J Tulley at the opening of the Queen's Centre for Oncology & Haematology, East Yorkshire (5/03/2009)
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A New Publication - July 2010 - British Journal of Radiology
(Sept 2010)
The fourth in a series of papers by physicist Craig Moore and colleagues on optimisation of computed radiography systems for chest imaging has been accepted for publication by the British Journal of Radiology (BJR) -
"A method to produce and validate a digitally reconstructed radiograph (DRR) based computer simulation for optimization of chest radiographs acquired with a computed radiography (CR) imaging system". A link to the abstract will be available once the manuscript has been doctored by the journal.
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New Chair of IPEM RP SIG
(20/07/2010)
From this autumn the new chairman of the Radiation Protection Special Interest Group of the Institute of Physics & Engineering in Medicine will be Mr John Saunderson of the Radiation Physics Department.
The main activities of the RP SIG are:
- To organise scientific or educational meetings to encourage debate and to disseminate information regarding developments in best practice in radiation protection and the relevant legislation.
- To publish news and information through the IPEM newsletter and website.
- To review and comment on draft legislation, guidance and information on behalf of IPEM.
- To produce reports as appropriate.
- To lead or contribute to working parties as appropriate.
- To promote evidence-based practice in radiation protection.
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New RPA Appointed
(1/07/2010)
Following his successful application for certification as a radiation Protection adviser under the RPA2000 scheme, Mr Craig Moore has been appointed principal physicist, radiation protection adviser and medical physics expert for diagnostic imaging in the Radiation Physics Department.
Craig has worked for the Department in the field of radiation protection for seven years, following successful completion of IPEM part 1 in Hull.
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Invited Speaker at RPA Update
(22/06/2010)
"New Brachytherapy & Radiotherapy Techniques - Radiation Protection Issues" was the title of a talk given by John Saunderson of the Radiation Physics Department at the request of the Institute of Physics & Engineering Medicine at their annual Radiation Protection Advisers' Update in London.
A 1 MB PDF of the slides used in the talk can be downloaded from our publications page.
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British Journal of Radiology Article
This March's edition of the British Journal of Radiology features a commentary by Professor Andy Beavis of the Radiation Physics Department on the subject of Image-guided radiation therapy: what is our Utopia? (Br J Radiol 2010;83 185-191).
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Digital Radiology User Group
Mr Craig Moore of the Radiation Physics Department will be presenting a paper on A computer model to simulate DRRs from CT datasets for the purpose of optimising chest CR at the Institute of Physics & Engineering in Medicine's Digital Radiology Users Group on 22nd April 2010 in Glasgow.
See 5th Digital User Group for more information on this scientific meeting.
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28/01/2010
First Intraocular Brachytherapy Treatments in Hull
The Radiation Physics Department is participating in a new trial in Hull to test the effectiveness of brachytherapy in the treatment of age-related wet macular degeneration (AMD). The treatment uses beta particles from a Sr90/Y90 source to treat the lesion.
See HEY Hospitals for more information on this pioneering new treatment.
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16/01/10 HEY! e-newsletter
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9/10/09 HEY! newsletter
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1/09/09 British Journal of Radiology
The third in a series of papers by physicist Craig Moore and colleagues on optimisation of computed radiography systems for chest imaging has been published by the British Journal of Radiology (BJR) - "Investigating the exposure class of a computed radiography system for optimisation of physical image quality for chest radiography" [abstract]
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