Presentations

2020

Mehranian A, Su K, Walker MD, Chetan M, McGowan DR, Gleeson FV, Brown A, Johnsen R, Wollenweber SD. Deep learning image enhancement for short-duration whole-body FDG PET scans. EANM 2020, virtual.
Event organised by European Association of Nuclear Medicine

Walker MD, Su K, Wollenweber SD, Johnsen R, McGowan DR. Automatic Classification of Data-Driven Respiratory Waveforms Using AI. EANM 2020, virtual.
Event organised by European Association of Nuclear Medicine

Hutton L, Morgan D, McGowan DR, Hallam A. Investigation into the excretion rates and contact restrictions of Lu-177 Dotatate patients. EANM 2020, virtual.
Event organised by European Association of Nuclear Medicine

McGurk S, Morgan D, McGowan DR. An Analysis of Post-Therapy Lu177 Uptake Progression for Individual Volumes of Interest Across a Full Treatment Cycle. EANM 2020, virtual.
Event organised by European Association of Nuclear Medicine

Jewitt S, Walker MD, McGowan DR. Investigation of Optimal Beta Value with Frame Duration for PET Bayesian Penalized-Likelihood Reconstructions. EANM 2020, virtual.
Event organised by European Association of Nuclear Medicine

Tran-Gia J, Robinson AP, Bobin C, Nicholas Calvert, Collins S, Denis-Bacelar AM, Fenwick A, Ferreira K, Finocchiaro D, Fioroni F, Gianopoulou K, Grassi E, Heetun W, Jewitt SJ, Kotzasarlidou M, Ljungberg M, Lourenco V, McGowan DR, Scuffham J, Sjogreen Gleisner K, Solc J, Thiam C, Jill Tipping, Wevrett J, Lassmann M. An international quantitative SPECT/CT imaging exercise for assessment of Ba-133 as surrogate for I-131. EANM 2020, virtual.
Event organised by European Association of Nuclear Medicine

Tran-Gia J, Robinson AP, Nicholas Calvert, Denis-Bacelar AM, Fenwick AJ, Ferreira KM, Finocchiaro D, Fioroni F, Grassi E, Heetun W, Jewitt SJ, Kalathas T, Kotzasarlidou M, Ljungberg M, McGowan DR, Scuffham J, Sjogreen Gleisner K, Tipping J, Wevrett J, Lassmann M. An international quantitative SPECT/CT imaging exercise for Lu-177. EANM 2020, virtual.
Event organised by European Association of Nuclear Medicine

Skwarski M, McGowan DR, Belcher E, Di Chiara F, Stavroulias D, Prevo R, Macklin PS, Chauhan J, O'Reilly D, Green M, Ferencz P, Rodriguez-Berriguete G, Flight H, Qi C, Holmes J, Buffa F, McCole M, Bulte D, Macpherson R, Higgins GS. Repurposing atovaquone as a tumour hypoxia modifier: a window of opportunity study in patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer. ASTRO 202, virtual.
Event organised by American Society for Radiation Oncology

2019

Radioisotope Physics

Amin AS, Walker MD, Hutton LH, McGowan DR, Hallam A. Se-75 in Human Breast Milk Following Administration of a SeHCAT Capsule. BNMS 2019, Oxford
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Helming AM, Hallam A. Development of In-House Software for Open Source Compliance with EPR 2016. BNMS 2019, Oxford
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Morgan D, Slade K, Hallam A. Reducing inpatient stay for I131 ablation patients using quality improvement methodologies. BNMS 2019, Oxford (Radiotherapy 1st prize)
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Hutton L, Amin AS, Jewitt SJ, Porter C, Morgan AJ, Bradley KM, McGowan DR. Moving to Single Sample GFRs: Variability in Using Estimated GFR to Predict Measured GFR and the Time Saved by Using a Single Sample GFR Methods. BNMS 2019, Oxford
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Walker M, Morgan A, Bradley KM, McGowan DR. Comparison of Data-Driven and Device-Based Respiratory Gating in Clinical PET/CT. BNMS 2019, Oxford
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

McMeekin H, Townrow S, Wickham F, Fongenie B, Porter C, McGowan DR, Memmott M, Bradley A, Vennart N, Barnfield M, Burniston M. Tailoring the Sampling Time of Single-Sample GFR According to Renal Function: is the Proposal in the BNMS GFR Guidelines Practical and Supported by Evidence. BNMS 2019, Oxford
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Jewitt S, Cade S, Evans M. Assessment of the Effect of Cardiac Contraction on SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. BNMS 2019, Oxford
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Amin AS, McGowan DR. Phantom evaluation and optimisation of OSEM reconstruction algorithms on In-111 SPECT imaging. BNMS 2019, Oxford (Lee Jenkin's memorial prize)
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Morgan A, Scott NP, Helming AM, Hallam A. A method of determining when solid radioactive waste can be considered Very Low Level Waste (VLLW) via contamination monitoring. BNMS 2019, Oxford
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

2018

Clinical Measurement

Steele R. Differential Diagnosis and interpretation of data, case based learning. 4th Intra-Operative Neuromonitoring for Spinal Surgery Masterclass, The Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Sep 2018.
Event organised by The Orthopaedic Institute

Radioisotope Physics

Walker MD. PET Imaging of Lung and Abdominal Lesions with Deviceless Respiratory Gating. Nordic PET/CT User Meeting. November 2018, Oslo, Norway
Event organised by GE Healthcare

Walker MD. PET Imaging of Lung and Abdominal Lesions with Deviceless Respiratory Gating. MI Symposium. November 2018, Birmingham
Event organised by GE Healthcare

Walker MD, Morgan AJ, Bradley KM, McGowan DR. Evaluation of Novel Data Driven Respiratory Gating Waveforms. EANM 2018, Dusseldorf
Event organised by European Association of Nuclear Medicine

Fleming S, Bradley KM, McGowan DR. Comparison Between Planar and SPECT/CT Lung Shunt Fractions for Pre-Therapy SIRT Patients. EANM 2018, Dusseldorf
Event organised by European Association of Nuclear Medicine

Scott NP, Porter CA, McGowan DR. A Phantom and Patient Based Quantitative Comparison of PET/CT and SPECT/CT, for post 90Y SIRT Imaging. EANM 2018, Dusseldorf
Event organised by European Association of Nuclear Medicine

Walker MD, Morgan DG, McGowan DR, Hallam A. Case Study: Challenges of Y-90 SIRT When a High Lung Shunt is Present. Internal Dosimetry Users Group - Future of MRT Dosimetry, Sept 2018, Oxford
Event organised by British Institute of Radiology

Skwarski M, McGowan DR, Bradley KM, Fenwick JD, Gleeson FV, Horne A, Maughan T, McKenna WG, Mohammed S, Muschel RJ, Ng SM, Panakis N, Strauss VY, Stuart R, Vallis KA, Macpherson RE, Higgins GS. Safety and Tumour Hypoxia Modifying Effect of Buparlisib with Radiotherapy in NSCLC: A Phase I Dose Escalation Study. World Conference on Lung Cancer, Toronto, Sept 2018
Event organised by International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer

Scott NP, Porter CA, McGowan DR. A quantitative comparison of PET/CT and SPECT/CT for post SIRT 90Y imaging. BNMS 2018, Birmingham (Lee Jenkins Memorial Oral Prize)
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Walker MD, Bradley KM, McGowan DR. Evaluation of data driven respiratory gating for PET. BNMS 2018, Birmingham (Multi-modality Oral Prize)
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Scott NP, McGowan DR. Optimising 90Y PET/CT for quantitative imaging. BNMS 2018, Birmingham
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Armstrong IS, Memmott M, McGowan DR. Harmonization in Quantitative SPECT: can it be done robustly. BNMS 2018, Birmingham
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Porter CA, Morgan AJ, Bradley KM, McGowan DR. Relationship between estimated GFR and slope-intercept and single-sample 51Cr-EDTA GFR. BNMS 2018, Birmingham (2nd Poster Prize)
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Fleming SP, Bradley KM, McGowan DR. Investigation into lung shunt fraction calculations from SPECT/CT and planar scintigraphy for pre-therapy SIRT patients. BNMS 2018, Birmingham
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

2017

Clinical Engineering

Taylor T. Towards Objective Medical Device Funding Strategies - The Knapsack Problem Method. IPEM MPEC/MEIbioeng 2017, Wednesday 13 September 2017
Event organised by Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

Imaging Physics

Barnard M. Our experience at the coalface: Mining with Dose Management Software. Dose Management in Contemporary Radiological Practice, IPEM Meeting, Birmingham, October 2017
Event organised by Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

Barnard M. Patient Dose Management - From Big Data to Big Bang: Compliance made easy. European Congress of Radiology, Meet the Expert - Bayer Healthcare Industry Workshop, March 2017, Vienna
Event organised by European Congress of Radiology

Radioisotope Physics

Walker MD. Evaluation of Data Driven Gating for PET Using the Abdo-Man Phantom and a Respiratory Motion Platform. PET Update: current status and future developments. IPEM June 2017, York
Event organised by Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

Ryan J, Feldmann M, Walker MD, Charalambous V, Anton-Rodriguez J, Wang S, Bauer M, Hinz R, Koepp M, Asselin M-C. Inter-ictal [15O]H2O/PET differentiates between drug-resistant and seizure-free mesial temporal lobe epilepsy patients. ISCBFM BRAIN2017 April 2017, Berlin
Event organised by International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Scott N, Helming A, Hallam A. Determining when solid radioactive waste can be classed as VLLW through the use of contamination monitoring. Radiation Protection in Nuclear Medicine, IPEM Conference October 2017, Birmingham
Event organised by Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

Teoh EJ, McGowan DR, Schuster DM, Tsakok M, Gleeson FV, Bradley KM. Bayesian penalised likelihood reconstruction of fluciclovine (18F) PET for imaging of recurrent prostate cancer: semi-quantitative and clinical evaluation. Society of Nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting, June 2017, Denver
Event organised by Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

McGowan DR. SIRT PET/CT in post-SIRT evaluation. British Nuclear Medicine Society Annual Meeting May 2017, Birmingham
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Hutton L, Morgan D, Hallam A. Comparison of different methods of calculating contact restrictions for patients undergoing I-131 thyroid cancer therapy. British Nuclear Medicine Society Annual Meeting May 2017, Birmingham
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Porter CA, Bradley KM, McGowan DR. Optimisation of reconstruction algorithms to improve image quality in Tc-99m sestamibi SPECT-CT parathyroid imaging. British Nuclear Medicine Society Annual Meeting May 2017, Birmingham
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Porter CA, Walker MD, Bradley KM, McGowan DR. Full Monte Carlo collimator modelling significantly improves contrast recovery in post-SIRT Y-90 Bremsstrahlung SPECT imaging. British Nuclear Medicine Society Annual Meeting May 2017, Birmingham
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Radiotherapy Physics

Green S, Amos R, Van Den Heuvel F, Kacperek A, Mackay R, Palmans H, D'Souza D and Thomas R. EP-1467: IPEM Code of Practice for proton and ion beam dosimetry: update on work in progress. In: Radiotherapy and Oncology 123 (2017), S. S783-S784 ESTRO Turin, Italy
Event organised by ESTRO, the European SocieTy for Radiotherapy & Oncology

Van Den Heuvel F, Fiorini F and George B. PO-0830: Quantification of density and tissue changes in pencil beam scanning proton treatment. In: Radiotherapy and Oncology 123 (2017), S. S446-S447 ESTRO Turin Italy
Event organised by ESTRO, the European SocieTy for Radiotherapy & Oncology

Teoh S, George B, Fiorini F, Vallis K and Van Den Heuvel F. Robustness assessment using probabilistic scenarios of intensity modulated proton therapy and volumetric arc therapy in non-small-cell lung cancer: an in-silico radiotherapy planning study. The Lancet (2017) 38 S94
Event organised by The Lancet

2016

Clinical Engineering

Taylor T. Designing and Constructing a Mechanical Viewfinder Accessory for Improving Fluoroscopic Palatal Investigations in Children. IPEM, Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Conference, September 2016, Manchester
Event organised by Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

Imaging Physics

Mutch SJ. Introducing Model Based Iterative Reconstruction (MBIR) techniques into routine paediatric CT imaging: Redefining image quality and patient dose. IPEM, Optimisation in Paediatric Imaging, London, April 2016
Event organised by Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

Radioisotope Physics

Walker MD. Respiratory motion correction for accurate SIRT dosimetry. Discovery PET/CT 710 Users Group Day June 2016, Chalfont St Giles
Event organised by GE Healthcare

Walker MD, Porter CA, McGowan DR. PET Imaging for Y-90 SIRT: Effect of Liver Motion on Dosimetry. European Association of Nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting, October 2016, Barcelona
Event organised by European Association of Nuclear Medicine

Porter CA, Walker MD, Bradley KM, McGowan DR. Effect of Monte Carlo Collimator Modelling on 90Y Bremsstrahlung SPECT Images. European Association of Nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting, October 2016, Barcelona
Event organised by European Association of Nuclear Medicine

McGowan DR, Macpherson RE, Hackett SL, Gleeson FV, Higgins GS, Fenwick JD. Investigation into the optimal model for whole tumour and voxel FMISO kinetics analysis. European Association of Nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting, October 2016, Barcelona
Event organised by European Association of Nuclear Medicine

Morley NCD, McGowan DR, Bradley KM, Gleeson FV. A Software Motion-Correcting PET Reconstruction Reduces Nodule Size. European Association of Nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting, October 2016, Barcelona
Event organised by European Association of Nuclear Medicine

Rojas B, Hooker C, McGowan DR, Guy M, Tipping J. Eight years of Molecular Radiotherapy (MRT) Growth in the UK: Survey results from 2007 to 2015. Internal Dosimetry Users Group Bi-Annual Conference, June 2016, Oxford
Event organised by British Institute of Radiology

Walker MD, Porter CA, McGowan DR. PET Imaging for Y-90 SIRT: Effect of Liver Motion on Dosimetry. Internal Dosimetry Users Group Bi-Annual Conference, June 2016, Oxford
Event organised by British Institute of Radiology

Porter CA, Walker MD, Bradley KM, McGowan DR. Optimisation of 90Y Bremsstrahlung SPECT Images using Advanced SPECT Reconstruction Algorithms. Internal Dosimetry Users Group Bi-Annual Conference, June 2016, Oxford
Event organised by British Institute of Radiology

Morgan D, Hutton L, Hallam A. Comparison of different whole body dosimetry calculation methods for I-131 thyroid cancer therapies. Internal Dosimetry Users Group Bi-Annual Conference, June 2016, Oxford
Event organised by British Institute of Radiology

Chilcott A, Bradley KM, McGowan DR. Investigation into the improvement of the new Bayesian penalised likelihood PET reconstruction algorithm on obese patients. British Nuclear Medicine Society, April 2016, Birmingham
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

McGowan DR. Dynamic PET. British Nuclear Medicine Society, April 2016, Birmingham
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

McGowan DR. Hypoxia Imaging with FMISO. British Nuclear Medicine Society, April 2016, Birmingham
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

O'Doherty J, McGowan DR, Abreu C, Barrington S. Effect of Bayesian penalized likelihood reconstruction on [13N]-NH3 perfusion imaging in suspected cardiac sarcoidosis. British Nuclear Medicine Society, April 2016, Birmingham
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Sossi V, Mabrouk R, Walker MD, Shahinfard E, Vafai N, Fu J, Heffernan N, Mckenzie J, Farrer M, Zhang J, Wszolek Z, Aasly J, Stoessl AJ. Increased neuroinflammation in asymptomatic LRRK2 mutation carriers: a pilot PET imaging study. American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, April 2016, Vancouver
Event organised by American Academy of Neurology

Radiotherapy Physics

Chu KY, Eccles CL, Baker T, Durrant L, Holyoake DLP, Robinson M, Mukherjee S, Hawkins MA. Oral Contrast Improves Soft Tissue Matching in Image Guided Radiation Therapy for Gastrointestinal (GI) Tumors. ASTRO, September 2016
Event organised by American Society for Radiation Oncology

Robinson M, Christophides D, Cooper R, Murray P, Lilley J, Muirhead R, Sebag-Montefiore D, Hawkins MA. Personalized Dose Escalation in Anal Cancer. ASTRO, September 2016
Event organised by American Society for Radiation Oncology

Holyoake DLP, Cooke R, Chu K, Buckle A, Hawkins MA. Permit to enter 'no-fly-zone': Risk adapted mediastinal SBRT for central oligometastases appears safe. UK SABR meeting and ESTRO, 2016
Event organised by ESTRO, the European SocieTy for Radiotherapy & Oncology

Van Den Heuvel F, Fiorini F and George B. SU-F-T-147: An Alternative Parameterization of Scatter Behavior Allows Significant Reduction of Beam Characterization for Pencil Beam Proton Therapy. In: Medical physics 43 (2016), Nr. 6, S. 3495-3495 AAPM Washington DC, USA
Event organised by American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Van Den Heuvel F, George B and Fiorini F. A Novel Analytic Parametrization of Proton Pencil Beams. In: International Journal of Radiation Oncology.Biology.Physics 96 (2016), Nr. 2, S. S79-S80 ASTRO Oral presentation Boston, MA, USA
Event organised by Event organised by American Society for Radiation Oncology

2015

Radioisotope Physics

McGowan DR, Macpherson RE, McGregor N, Love SB, Virdee P, Gleeson FV, Fenwick JD, Higgins GS. Does Buparlisib plus thoracic radiotherapy reduce hypoxia in patients with non-small cell lung cancer? The use of F-MISO imaging in a phase I dose-escalation trial. NCRI Cancer Conference, November 2015, Liverpool
Event organised by National Cancer Research Institute

Rowley LM, McGowan DR, Bradley KM, Hallam A. Optimisation of Y-90 post-SIRT PET imaging on GE Discovery systems. European Association of Nuclear Medicine, Oct 2015, Hamburg
Event organised by European Association of Nuclear Medicine

McGowan DR, Macpherson RE, McGregor N, Gleeson FV, Fenwick JD, Higgins GS. Interim Analysis of a Phase I Dose-Escalation Trial of BKM120 Plus thoracic Radiotherapy in NSCLC. International Wolfsberg Meeting on Molecular Radiation Biology and Oncology, June 2015, Wolfsberg
Event organised by Wolfsberg Meeting Series

McGowan DR. Current-generation PET reconstruction (GE). Further PET Physics IPEM conference, May 2015, Manchester
Event organised by Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

McGowan DR. Dynamic PET for pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Further PET Physics IPEM conference, May 2015, Manchester
Event organised by Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

Rojas B, Hooker C, McGowan DR, Guy MJ. Five years of Molecular Radiotherapy (MRT) Growth in the UK: Survey results from 2007 to 2012. British Nuclear Medicine Society, April 2015, Brighton
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Rowley LM, McGowan DR, Bradley KM, Hallam A. Optimisation of Y-90 post-SIRT PET imaging using a novel PET reconstruction algorithm. British Nuclear Medicine Society, April 2015, Brighton
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Armstrong I, Kenny KE, Rowley LM, McGowan DR. Comparison of PET reconstruction from two manufacturers with point spread function modelling and time-of-flight. British Nuclear Medicine Society, April 2015, Brighton
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Livieratos L, Aldridge M, Guy M, Kalogianni E, McGowan DR, Rojas B, Tipping J. A software phantom for testing dosimetric calculations for multi-centre studies. Application to 177Lu-DOTATATE and the UK Internal Dosimetry Users Group British Nuclear Medicine Society, April 2015, Brighton
Event organised by British Nuclear Medicine Society

Radiotherapy Physics

Holyoake DLP, Robinson M, Grose D, McIntosh D, Sebag-Montefiore D, Radhakrishna G, Patel N, Mukherjee S, Hawkins MA. PO-0713: Conformity analysis of target-volume definition for margin-directed boost in pancreatic cancer. UK SABR Consortium Annual Meeting, November 2015
Event organised by SABR UK Consortium

Eaton D, Robinson M, Patel R, Hawkins MA. EP-1941: Assessment of variation in planning benchmark case for ABC-07 trial of liver. SBRT UK SABR Consortium Annual Meeting, November 2015
Event organised by SABR UK Consortium

Robinson M, Eaton D, Patel R, Holyoake DLP, Hawkins MA. EP-1720: Impact of contouring variability on tumour control and normal tissue toxicity in liver. SBRT UK SABR Consortium Annual Meeting, November 2015
Event organised by SABR UK Consortium

Holyoake DLP, Robinson M, Grose D, McIntosh D, Sebag-Montefiore D, Radhakrishna G, Patel N, Mukherjee S, Hawkins MA. Conformity analysis of target volumes for Margin-Intense Radiotherapy in Borderline-Resectable Pancreatic Cancer. British Institute of Radiology SABR Conference, November 2015, Belfast
Event organised by British Institute of Radiology

Hawkins MA, Ward E, Holyoake DLP, Hamill C, Odindi L, Strauss V, Robinson M, Grose D, McIntosh D, Sebag-Montefiore D, Radhakrishna G, Mukherjee S. SPARC: A Phase I trial of pre-operative, margin intensive, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for previously untreated borderline resectable pancreatic cancer (BRPC). British Institute of Radiology SABR Conference, November 2015 Belfast
Event organised by British Institute of Radiology

Robinson M, Eaton D, Patel R, Durrant L, Holyoake DLP, Hawkins MA. Impact of Contouring Variability on Toxicity in Liver Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy. British Institute of Radiology SABR Conference, November 2015, Belfast
Event organised by British Institute of Radiology

Cutter DJ, Diez P, Illidge T, Buckle A, Popova B, Darby SC, Radford J. Cardiac Radiation Dose and Predicted Cardiac Mortality in the UK NCRI RAPID Trial in early stage Hodgkin Lymphoma. 13th International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma, June 2015, Lugano
Event organised by Institute of Oncology Research

Robinson M, Sabbagh A, Durrant L, Muirhead R, Van den Heuvel F, Hawkins MA. EP-1479: NTCP modeling of acute hematologic toxicity in conformal and intensity-modulated radiotherapy in anal cancer. ESTRO, April 2015
Event organised by ESTRO, the European SocieTy for Radiotherapy & Oncology

Durrant L, Van den Heuvel F, Robinson M, Hawkins MA, Muirhead R. PO-0706: Individualised margin calculations for different target regions in anal cancer. IMRT, ESTRO, April 2015
Event organised by ESTRO, the European SocieTy for Radiotherapy & Oncology