BNMS 2008 Spring Meeting Edinburgh

Prize Winners

Student Prize

Based on submission alone

1^st        A Weeks, D Lloyd, University of Kent, R Paul, P Marsden, P Blower, King’s College London.

Hypoxia-targeted radionuclide therapy: hypoxia-selective toxicity and       DNA     damage induced by ⁶⁴CuATSM. 

2^nd       K Hillman, J Fleming, G Gwynne, F Sundrum, Southampton University Hospitals Trust.

Comparison of relative renal function measurements from geometric mean and posterior – only analysis using simulated images. 

3^rd        L O’Brien, Royal West Sussex NHS Trust, M J Guy, J W Scuffham, Y W Ho, Royal Surrey County Hospital.

PACS display assessment for nuclear medicine images. 

Technologist Poster

S Baker, St Thomas’ Hospital Clinical PET Centre, London

CT incidental findings: consideration for a PET/CT technologist. 

Technologist Oral 

J Harris, G Satterthwaite, C Walker, N Nagaraj, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Southampton General Hospital

Four years on – follow up on non-clinician led pharmacological cardiac stress (NCS) 

Poster Prize 

1^st        A Parthipun, B Hughes, P Hadway, T Swallow, M Shabbir, S Heenan, C Corbishley, N Watkin, St George’s Hospital, London.

The combined role of ultrasonographic guided fine needle aspiration and sentinel lymph node biopsy in nodal staging of patients with penile squamous cell carcinoma. 

2^nd       T Szyszko, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, M Easty, L Biassoni, Great Ormond Street Hospital London.

Indications for VQ scanning in the paediatric population: current trends. 

3^rd (joint)          A Parthipun, B Hughes, M Shabbir, T Swallow, S Heenan, C Corbishley, N Watkins, St George’s Hospital London

The role of dynamic lymphoscintigraphy with sentinel node biopsy and ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration cytology in the management of squamous cell carcinoma of the penis. 

3^rd (joint)          B Hutton, K Erlandsson, K Kacperski, D Van Gramberg, Institute of Nuclear Medicine UCL London,  N Roth, Spectrum Dynamics, Haifa, Israel.

Recommendations on QC procedures for a non-conventional SPECT system. 

Young Investigator Prize 

            F M  Lavender, R T Meades, A Al-Nahhas, K S Nijran, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust London.

             A comparative study of softwares used for LVEF quantification in myocardial perfusion imaging. 

Multimodality Poster Prize

            M Guy, M Pryor, Department of Medical Physics, Royal Surrey County Hospital UK.

             Simulation of the Infinia II Hawkeye SPECT CT system and example applications. 

Multimodality Oral Prize

            P J Schleyer, M J O’Doherty, V Warbey, S F Barrington, P K Marsden, Guy’s King’s and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine.

             Data driven respiratory gating for PET and CT imaging. 

Oral Presentation Prize

1^st        R Paul, P Halsted, P Marsden, P Blower, King’s College London.

Routine availability of CU-61 and CU-64 for clinical PET applications. 

2^nd       V Helyar, King’s College London, H Mohan, T Barwick, Department of Nuclear Medicine Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS foundation trust.

The added value of multislice SPECT/CT in patients with equivocal bony metastasis from carcinoma of the prostate.

3^rd        W Tomson, J Cullis, J O’Brien, City Hospital Birmingham.

Variations in Butterworth filter definitions and an algorithm for uniformity.