Two members of staff from the Regional Medical Physics Department have won prestigious prizes at the recent IPEM Annual Scientific Meeting 2002 held in Durham.
Simon Willis from the Radiation Protection Group at Newcastle General Hospital won the prize for the best oral presentation or poster from a technologist. Simon's talk was entitled 'Effective dose in Paediatric Computed Tomography'. The work he presented involved the development of a method of determining effective dose from CT for any size of paediatric patient from the easily measured quantity Dose Length Product. This entailed performing a series of scans on paediatric anthropomorphic phantoms and analysing the resultant TLD measurements.
Kathryn Banister from the Critical Care Physics Section also at Newcastle General Hospital won the President's Price for the best presentation from a speaker aged under 35. Her talked entitled 'Detecting changes in intracranial pressure using tympanic membrane displacement measurement' described some of the work that is sponsored by a grant from Action Research that is looking at a non-invasive method of measuring intracranial pressure.
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