Name: Viewing Your Insides From The Outside
Start: 2018-05-16T
End: 2018-05-16T
Location: Horse and Stables

Doctors and researchers use hospital scans to help diagnose diseases every single day. But how do these techniques actually work and what other information can we gather from these procedures? Join us as our speakers navigate us through the field of medical imaging and tell us about the literal life-changing information they can gather from it.

PET Scanning: Let's Get Personal!

Professor Sally Barrington (Professor of PET Imaging and National Institute of Health Research Professor)

PET scans do not image your cat, dog or hamster! Instead, tiny amounts of radioactive sugar (and other substances) are used to safely image human patients. Cancer cells need lots of energy (sugar) and show up as hotspots on a PET scan, meaning PET can be used to monitor cancer treatment before tumours even start to shrink in size. Sally Barrington has been involved in PET research for over 20 years. Come and find out how she and others are using PET to ‘get personal’ to monitor cancer treatment for individual patients to improve their chances of cure with fewer side-effects.

Improving Imaging – Seeing Under the Skin

Professor Tom Vercauteren (Professor of Interventional Image Computing)

As we continue to perform more precise & less intrusive surgery, the role of medical imaging in planning and delivering operations is becoming more important than ever. Join us to discover how science & engineering allow us to see under the skin & explore the current applications and future possibilities.

Navigating the brain: software programming for surgical planning

Professor Sebastien Ourselin (Head of the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences)

The brain consists of billions of neurons that communicate using electrical signals in a vast interconnected network. When this delicate balance is disrupted electric surges can lead to epileptic seizures, affecting around 500,000 people each year in the UK. Find out how engineers are helping surgeons to turn sleuths; safely navigating complex brain structures to place sensors that trace these surges and help plan better treatments. While this used to be the stuff of sci-fi, these techniques are now improving thousands of lives, but the plot still features tension, robots, detectives and risk.

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