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EMPEC 2011 Meeting Reports from Dublin  **%() P06 IGRT FREQUENCY P07 TRANSATLANTIC WORK P07 NANOPARTICLES IN MRI Its effect on geometric Collaboration on new UK Paramagnetic nanoparticles accuracy and set-up margins proton therapy installation may enhance MRI contrast SCOPE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE | www.ipem.ac.uk | Volume 20 Issue 4 | DECEMBER 2011 Open-loop lung simulator For ventilation of preterm infants Radium storage during WWII The recovery of radium after bomb explosions EMPEC 2011 Meeting reports from Dublin **%() DOSIMETRY SOLUTIONS *( &$*%# $" $ "+$ ,( * %$ *$( $ ,( * %$ " " %) #*(. $ ,()" )%"+* %$ "## $%& ' )")'%).%.+! ---.'%).%.+! PRESIDENT’S LETTER | SCOPE IN THE SPOTLIGHT he New Year is a time costs is only too real for many. For when we traditionally others the perception is that we are look back on the past poorly engaged with the need to take and resolve to do services closer to the patient. The things differently in demand for our skills will expand in the future. At the primary and social care settings with Toutset of my term of office as the planned NHS reforms President, I must record my thanks to but are we fully engaged in those that have completed their terms Peter Jarritt this commissioning agenda? of office and hand on an organisation President The economic spotlight which is well placed to face the will shine brightly for the spotlight being shone upon us. next 2–3 years, demanding It is also an opportune time to that we seek to deliver an welcome the first cohort of the overall reduction in our Modernising Scientific Careers’ costs to the health service. scientist trainees in medical physics We also stand firmly in the and engineering. As you celebrate spotlight of the NHS reform your success in securing a place on agenda. The Department of these training programmes and the Health initiative to change the training opportunity this will bring to apply and education structures across the your scientific skills in the delivery of whole of healthcare science was almost quality healthcare, those who will immediately challenged by other assume that the new healthcare science teach, train and mentor you through political decisions such as the increase educational programmes will develop the programme have the in university tuition fees which has the practitioner grades as required in the responsibility and privilege to nurture potential to completely destabilise the workplace. The IPEM must take your talents and endeavour to ensure training and education of our ownership of this issue on behalf of the that you surpass the achievements of practitioner workforce. profession. I strongly believe we have your predecessors. a continuing role in the training and I am acutely aware that healthcare SHINING BRIGHTLY education of our workforce. science has never before been so What can IPEM reflect in this Thirdly, we must continue to centrally placed in the spotlight. In spotlight? There are a number of key support and develop our publication the broader arena the life sciences and priorities for the Institute to address activities through our journals and the associated pathology services are over the next few years. Primarily we scientific report series. Publications in the midst of a radical must grow as a community of people must be timely and evidence based. transformation programme driven by with common interests, engaging with These activities have a worldwide the successes of scientific and colleagues from many professions and audience and we should not lose sight engineering advances to automate forming a voice which speaks with of this aspect of our activities as a complex diagnostic biochemical tests. authority on the effective delivery and professional body and a charity. The transformation is further fuelled optimisation of healthcare services. We Lastly, we have a unique by the ability of technology to deliver must innovate and fully engage with opportunity over the next 2 years to much more ‘point of care’ testing and our academic and industrial colleagues truly promote the impact of physics modify the configuration of the to bring new technologies and and engineering in medicine through delivery of healthcare. The applications to enhance service the delivery of the International physiological sciences are being delivery. We must understand the new Conference on Medical Physics from challenged to enhance their role in the NHS structures and how to effectively 1st–4th September 2013 in Brighton. delivery of patient-facing services and engage with national and local This will be a celebration of the 50th to explore moving the focus from the healthcare commissioning groups to anniversary of the foundation of the acute sector to primary care. This ensure that innovations are evaluated International Organization for Medical element of the spotlight is challenging and, where proven effective, adopted. Physics. This backdrop will allow us to the artificial boundaries between We must be able to share our keep our profession positively and physics and engineering and knowledge and understanding rapidly constructively in the spotlight. physiological measurement to ensure we can all benefit from our I hope this is an agenda we can all potentially impacting upon members corporate understanding. embrace. It will only be through our in their current and future roles. The Secondly, we must re-organise our own actions and determination that physical sciences are perhaps training and education infrastructure these opportunities can be grasped. perceived as vital to the delivery of and expertise. We must recognise our With a spirit of ‘ringing out the old safe patient services, yet expensive. need to engage with experts to help us and ringing in the new’ I wish you all The pressure from Trust management develop and deliver the highest quality a happy Christmas season and a to re-profile our workforce and lower training programmes. We must not rewarding and fulfilling New Year. SCOPE | DECEMBER 2011 | 03 SCOPE | CONTENTS THIS ISSUE 28 COVER FEATURE EMPEC 2011 Two meeting reports from the European Medical Physics and Engineering Conference in Dublin 08 A STUDY IN PROCRASTINATION Continuing the CEng theme, the story of how accreditation was finally achieved, after 18 years! 11 MUSINGS OF A CEng REGISTRANT WORKING OUTSIDE THE NHS A second story of how CEng accreditation was gained, from an author not working within the NHS 13 LUNG SIMULATOR: OPEN-LOOP CONTROLLED ACTIVE LUNG SIMULATOR A piston-based neonatal lung simulator is described, along with an open- 08 loop control system, designed for use in preterm infants 21 SAFE STORAGE: RADIUM CLINICAL NEEDLES AND TUBES DURING WWII We uncover the story of the loss and subsequent discovery of radium in storage following a bomb explosion during World War II 24 CLINICAL SCIENTIST STEERING GROUP SET UP FOR ADVICE TO NPL A steering group of nine clinical scientists has been established to give advice and guidance to the Radiation Dosimetry group at NPL TRAVEL AWARD 13 25 IPEM USA TRAVEL AWARD: A TRAINEE’S PERSPECTIVE Naomi Crossland MEETING REPORTS 32 ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE Helen Blundell 34 STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY: NEW EQUIPMENT, NOVEL TECHNIQUES Imran Patel 36 PARTNER COURSE: CLINICAL TRIALS ON SPECIFIC INDICATION Stacey McGowan 40 LIVERPOOL SHORT COURSE ON MEDICAL STATISTICS Hamid Reza Zolfagharinia 21 HISTORICAL FEATURE 50 A HISTORY OF MEDICAL PHYSICS Francis Duck REGULARS 03 PRESIDENT’S LETTER In the spotlight 05 EDITORIAL The Keith Boddy prize 06 NEWS Headlines in global research 42 MEMBERS’ NEWS New members admitted to IPEM 44 BOOK REVIEWS Nine books are reviewed! 25 04 | DECEMBER 2011 | SCOPE COMMENT | SCOPE Scope is the quarterly INTERNATIONAL EDITOR magazine of the Institute of (North America) Physics and Engineering in Richard A. Amos Medicine Department of Radiation IPEM Fairmount House, Physics, The University of 230 Tadcaster Road, Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer York, YO24 1ES Center, 1840 Old Spanish T 01904 610821 Trail,Houston, F 01904 612279 Texas 77054, U.S.A. THE KEITH BODDY PRIZE E [email protected] T + 1 713 563 6894 W www.ipem.ac.uk F + 1 713 563 1521 cope has a new prize, named in W www.scopeonline.co.uk E richamos@mdanderson. org honour of the late Keith Boddy, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Marc E. Miquel INTERNATIONAL EDITOR former HPA President. The prize Clinical Physics, Ryan D. Lewis will be awarded every year to the 4th Floor Dominion House, Department of Medical St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Physics and Clinical best educational article (review, London EC1A 7BE Engineering, Abertawe Bro T +44 (0)203 4655 785 Morgannwg University, tutorial, feature) and presented at F +44 (0)207 377 7100 NHS Trust, Singleton E [email protected] Hospital, Swansea, the dinner of the annual Medical Wales, SA2 8QA Physics and Engineering Conference. Well, apart ASSISTANT EDITOR T +44(0)179 220 5666 S Gemma Whitelaw extension 6438 from this year as it took us a bit longer than Radiotherapy Physics, E ryan.lewis@swansea- Basement, New KGV tr.wales.nhs.uk expected to finalise all the details. Despite this Building, St Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, ONLINE EDITOR hiccup, it is a pleasure to announce that our first London, EC1A 7BE Dr Damian JJ Farnell E gemma.whitelaw@barts Division of Mathematics and worthy winner is Dr Jenny Freeman. Over the andthelondon.nhs.uk Statistics, Faculty of years, Jenny has provided us with an excellent and Advanced Technology, MEETING REPORTS University of Glamorgan, extremely well received series of statistics tutorials, EDITOR Pontypridd CF37 1DL If you want to Angela Cotton T +44 (0)1443 484510 a subject that often scares a lot of readers away. If Head of Non-Ionising E [email protected] emulate Jenny and Radiation Support, Medical you want to emulate Jenny and become the next Physics & Bioengineering, Published on behalf of become the next winner just get typing and send us your articles. Southampton General the Institute of Physics Hospital, Southampton, and Engineering in “winner just get This year MPEC was held in Dublin, as part of SO16 3DR Medicine by E angela.cotton@suht.
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