• Question: What research are you conducting and how would you communitcate it to the wider world?

    Asked by Gemma to Clare, Glafkos, Paul on 18 Mar 2015.
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      anon answered on 18 Mar 2015:

      My biggest research project I’m working on at the moment is using MRI to visualise how blood flows through carotids (the vessels in the neck). Currently we use ultrasound to determine how much plaque is built up and if a patient needs surgery because they have had a stroke or symptoms. My work is to see if MRI is as good as ultrasound and what extra information can we get from it? hopefully MRI will give an even earlier indication than ultrasound.. this will help to identify patients that will need surgery to stop them in the future having a stroke.

      I communicate this by going to meetings and conferences! I’ll be going to Bristol next week to show my current results.

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      Glafkos Havariyoun answered on 18 Mar 2015:

      Currently i am looking at using a phantom to see how good our scanner is in taking into account the patients’ breathing motion!

      This is very important as due to the patients’ chest movement (when they breathe) tumours can appear larger than they normally are in the images we get. This would of course affect the doctors diagnosis and treatment for the patient.

      I communicate this by going to conference and meetings! I am planning to go to Germany this summer!

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      Paul Booker answered on 19 Mar 2015:

      Good question! At the moment work is really busy, so I’ve had to prioritise routine clinical duties over research. When I’ve had more time in the past though, I’ve presented results at conferences in posters and at talks. The other main way to communicate results in science is publication in journals. This means what you say can be checked before it gets published and also people can test your work to see if it stands up to scrutiny. It’s a very important part of the scientific process.

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