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| BNMS AWARDS AND PRIZES WINNERS 2021 |
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POSTER PRIZES SPONSORED BY National Physical Laboratory
![]() 3rd Poster Prize of £100 awarded to:
Peter Bartholomewa, Isobel Chenb, Nicholas Vennarta
aSouth Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Trust, Gateshead, United Kingdom. bGateshead Health NHS Trust, Gateshead, United Kingdom
No. P37 “Half-Dose Lung SPECT Perfusion First Scans for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism (PE) in
Pregnancy: A Quality Improvement Project” 2nd Poster Prize of £200 awarded to:
Alexander Smout, Rebecca Hammond, Anna Veronese
Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, United Kingdom
No. P15 “Should Super Absorbent Polymer have a place in a Nuclear Medicine spill kit?”
1st Poster Prize of £300 awarded to:
Hannah Nelstrop, Mark Barnfield
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom
No. P14 “How long should a SeHCAT patient wait before getting pregnant?”
RTNG PRIZES SPONSORED BY CURIUM
![]() Poster Prize of £150 awarded to: Denzil Hoffland, Andrea Breakell, Ruby Callister, Belinda Stiles, Adrian List
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,London, United Kingdom
No. P21 “An investigation into [99mTc]Tc-DMSA residual syringe activity and optimisation of administration
technique” Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Robin Mark McDade, Barbara Kerr, Scott Allan, Craig Paterson, Nicholas Goodfield
Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom
No. 26 “Regadenoson rescue of failing physiological stress: an evolving safety profile/impact on scan quality”
MULTIMODALITY PRIZES SPONSORED BY BNMS
![]() Poster prize of £300 awarded to:
Guy Burkilla,b, Francesca DeFelicec,d, Joel Dunna, Georgios Krokosa, Nuno Martinsa, Katharine Chalmersa,
Manil Subesinghea, Teresa GuerreroUrbanoc, Sally Barringtona aKing’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’ PET Centre, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging
Sciences, King’s College London, King’s Health Partners, London, United Kingdom. bDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom. cDepartment of Clinical Oncology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom. dDepartment of Radiotherapy, Policlinico Umberto I, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy No. P04 “Performance of semi-quantitative reporting for [18F] FDG PET-CT in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma treated with radical chemoradiotherapy using standard iterative reconstruction and higher convergent noise limiting reconstructions (advanced reconstruction).”
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Chris Mathews, Ian Armstrong
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
No. 12 “Looking at [18F]FDG PET with 2020 Vision”
RADIOPHARMACY ORAL PRIZE SPONSORED BY ALLIANCE MEDICAL
![]() £250 awarded to:
George Firtha, Zilin Yua, Joanna Bartnickaa, Fahad Al-salameea, Hannah Greenwooda, Jana Kima, David Parkerb, Philip Blowera
aKing’s College London, London, United Kingdom. bUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
No. 5 “Approaches of PET metallomics for the study of metal trafficking in vivo”
RADIOTHERAPY PRIZES SPONSORED BY BNMS
3rd Prize of £100 awarded to:
Adrian Ho, Peter Jarvis, Ganesh Vigneswaran, Sally-Anne Shelton, Francis Sundram
Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
No. 36 “Radium Dichloride ([223Ra] RaCl2) therapy for bone metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer: Potential survival advantage when used earlier in the treatment pathway”
2nd Prize of £200 awarded to:
Allison Craiga,b, Iain Murraya,b, Ana Denis-Bacelarc, Jonathan Geara,b, Lucy Hossend, Annelies Maenhoute, Nasir Khane, Glenn Fluxa,b
aRoyal Marsden NHSFT, Sutton, United Kingdom. bThe Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom.
cNational Physical Laboratory, Teddington, United Kingdom. dRoyal Brompton & Harefield NHSFT, London, United Kingdom. eChelsea & Westminster NHSFT, London, United Kingdom No. 41 “Uncertainty calculations for 90Y SIRT absorbed doses based on the EANM guidance”
1st Prize of £300 awarded to:
Hajira Ilyas, Amy Eccles, Nicolas Eftychiou, Haseeb Ahmed, Fahim Ul-Hassan, Val Lewington
Guy’s and St.Thomas’ NHS, London, United Kingdom
No. 39 “Incidence of raised HbA1c of ≥n42 mmol/mol (Normal ≤41 mmol/mol) in patients with
Neuroendocrine Tumour (NET) receiving peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) with [177Lu] Lu-DOTATATE at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.” ORAL PRIZES SPONSORED BY BNMS
![]() 3rd Prize of £100 awarded to:
Emily Fittock, Clare Beadsmoore, Andoni Toms, Ramona-Rita Sultana, David Newman, Davina Pawaroo,
Matthew Gray The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, United Kingdom
No. 8 “A feasibility study for half time [99mTc]Tc-MDP whole body bone imaging”
2nd Prize of £200 awarded to:
Bill Thomson
Physics and Nuclear Medicine, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom
No. 45 “Contamination Accidents with 99mTc, 18F, 90Y, 123I and 131I. Potential skin dose values to the gloved hand and the protective value of different gloves using the Delacroix droplet model and a new model for a ‘droplet’ calculated with VARSKIN v6.2.”
1st Prize of £300 + President’s Cup awarded to:
Alison Bolster, Gillian Ainslie-McLaren, Angela Fee, June McKinstray, Alison Lee
Stobhill Hospital, Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board, Glasgow, United Kingdom
No. 20 “Red blood cell volume measurement - can Indium replace Chromium?”
YOUNG INVESTIGATORS PRIZE SPONSORED BY BNMS
![]() £500 awarded to:
Gerard McKiernan
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, United Kingdom
No. 50 “The Optimal Timing of the SeHCAT Scan in the Diagnosis of Bile Acid Malabsorption for Patients with
Chronic Diarrhoea” STUDENT PRIZES SPONSORED BY BNMS - submitted in 2020 and awarded in 2021
![]() 3rd Prize of £100 awarded to:
Rachna Prema, James Templea, Wei-Shern Chena, Krokos Georgiosa, Gary Cooka
aGKT School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom. bKing's College London, London, United Kingdom
No 11 - “Bayesian Penalised Likelihood (“Q-clear”) reconstruction of 68Ga-Dotatate PET/CT in neuroendocrine tumours: a comparison with standard image reconstruction methods”
2nd Prize of £200 awarded to:
Marie Kershawa, Lu Yipingb, Vijay Sawlania, Hayaka Amadac, Simon Hughesd
aUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom. bFudan University, Shanghai, China. cCity Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom. dUniversity Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
No 4 – “Improvement of [18F]FDG PET/CT and MRI concordance in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Pre-surgical Assessment using Statistical Parametric Mapping Z-scores”
1st Prize of £300 awarded to:
Maryam Husseina, Esme Poolea, Vinod Kolimaralab, Mich Lajeunesseb, Efrem Erenc, Zia Saadc, Francis Sundramc, Nadeem Ahmad Afzalb
aUniversity of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom. bSouthampton Children's Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom. cUniversity Hospital Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
No 49 – “Paediatric gastric emptying: Factors predictive of delayed gastric emptying and clinical outcomes at 2 years follow-up”
BNMS Lee Jenkins Memorial Prizes sponsored by Hermes
![]() Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Ruby Callistera,b, Jonathan Gearb, Antigoni Divolib, Glenn Fluxb aSt George’s University Hospitals NHS FT, London, United Kingdom. bThe Royal Marsden NHS FT, London, United Kingdom
No. 43 “Errors arising from S-values for dosimetry of paediatric radionuclide therapies with 131I and 177Lu”
Poster Prize of £300 awarded to:
William Turner, Fiona Barrack, James Scuffham
Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, United Kingdom
No. P12 “Deconvolution of septal penetration for assessment of quantification in 131I planar imaging”
POSTERS AWARDED CERTIFICATES OF MERIT 2021 P04 Performance of semi-quantitative reporting for [18F] FDG PET-CT in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma treated with radical chemoradiotherapy using standard iterative reconstruction and higher convergent noise limiting reconstructions (advanced reconstruction).
Guy Burkilla,b, Francesca DeFelicec,d, Joel Dunna, Georgios Krokosa, Nuno Martinsa, Katharine Chalmersa, Manil Subesinghea, Teresa GuerreroUrbanoc, Sally Barringtona
aKing’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’ PET Centre, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, King’s Health Partners, London, United Kingdom. bDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom. cDepartment of Clinical Oncology,
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom. dDepartment of Radiotherapy, Policlinico Umberto I, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy P05 A comparative analysis exploring international variation in [18F] FDG PET-CT service provision: an ICBP study
Charlotte Lyncha, Irene Reguilona,b, Deanna Langerc, Damon Laned, Prithwish Dec, Wai-Lup Wonge, Fergus McKiddief, Andrew Rossg, Lorraine Shackh, Thida Wini, Christopher Marshallj, Mona-Elisabeth Revheimk, Bolette Danckertl, John Butlerm, Sabina Dizdarevicn, Mark McMillano, Cindy Chewp, Samantha Harrisona aCancer Research UK, London, United Kingdom. beConsult, London, United Kingdom. cCancer Care Ontario, Ontario, Canada. dPacific Radiology, Canterbury, New Zealand. eNHS England, London, United Kingdom. fNHS Grampian, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. gDalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. hCancer Control Alberta, Alberta,
Canada. iNHS England, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. jWales Research and Diagnostic PET Imaging Centre, Cardiff, United Kingdom. kOslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. lDanish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark. mThe Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. nNHS England, Brighton, United Kingdom. oAlberta Health Services, Alberta, Canada. pNHS Lanarkshire, Glasgow, United Kingdom P07 No Standards? A staged-approach to performing standardless-single-sample GFRs (SSS-GFR)
Mariq Weatherley, Peter O’Sullivan
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, Maidstone, United Kingdom
P10 Pilot of the use of a Convolutional Neural Network in [99mTc] Tc-DPD Imaging for Amyloidosis
Eva Sousaa, Ann Tweddelb, Stephen Archibalda, Alexander Turnera
aUniversity of Hull, Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom. bHull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom
P14 How long should a SeHCAT patient wait before getting pregnant?
Hannah Nelstrop, Mark Barnfield
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom
P21 An investigation into [99mTc]Tc-DMSA residual syringe activity and optimisation of administration
technique Denzil Hoffland, Andrea Breakell, Ruby Callister, Belinda Stiles, Adrian List
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
P32 Is there a correlation between patient symptoms and prevalence, or severity, of bile acid malabsorption as detected by a selenium labelled homo-taurocholic acid test (75SeHCAT)?
Sam Brooka, Anil Jainb
aUniversity of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. bManchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
P37 Half-Dose Lung SPECT Perfusion First Scans for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism (PE) in
Pregnancy: A Quality Improvement Project Peter Bartholomewa, Isobel Chenb, Nicholas Vennarta
aSouth Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Trust, Gateshead, United Kingdom. bGateshead Health NHS Trust, Gateshead, United Kingdom |
30/01/2026
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