• Question: what is the best thing you have done in your career

    Asked by 5n00p d0gg to Glafkos, Samantha, Paul, Clare on 11 Mar 2015. This question was also asked by Sweyda, 374medb32.
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      Glafkos Havariyoun answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      As I said in our chat I am designing a new phantom that will hopefully help us in seeing how one of our machines is taking patient breathing motion into account.

      But I am hoping to do a lot more! I would also want to inspire children to consider science as a profession and especially medical science.

    • Photo: Clare Devery

      Clare Devery answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      I think the best thing I’ve done is design an imaging coil to image mouse brains! That was two years ago so I’ve moved on and am working on cardiac scanning now. Hoping to figure out a quick and easy way to quantify dead heart tissue. That’s my next masterpiece 🙂

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      anon answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      My PhD my experimental work disagreed with a leading theory and yet supported another one – which would have impact on the way we understand the construction of the hydrogen atom.

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      Samantha Terry answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      The best thing I have done so far is start a clinical trial with the main aim to use imaging as a tool to image whether patients with head and neck cancer are responding to therapy. If they are not, their treatment could be swapped to something more effective for that particular individual person.

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      Paul Booker answered on 15 Mar 2015:

      I think the MSc project that I carried out in my last department was one of the best things I’ve done – I compared methods to treat left-sided breast cancer and found the one that gave the best treatment and minimised radiation going to the heart. This is important as many breast cancer patients will be treated when they’re in the 40s, so you want to minimise any long term side effects.

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