Medical Physics monthly seminar series to launch on October 31st

The Medical Physics monthly seminar series launches on Tuesday 31^st October with a session titled: Advanced Computational Imaging in the Adolescent Extremely Preterm Brain

This seminar will be given by Dr Andrew Melbourne at 13:00pm in Lecture Theatre 102, Malet Place Engineering Building.

Abstract

The development of imaging technology that can accurately measure the effects of early birth is vital to further understanding the long-term outcomes of at-risk preterm-born babies. Cohorts of survivors of extreme prematurity are now reaching adulthood and I will describe some early neuroimaging results on the UK EPICure cohort. This data brings with it several new imaging challenges which I will describe in detail.

Bio

Andrew Melbourne is a Lecturer in Advanced Computational Imaging within the Translational Imaging Group at UCL. He is a graduate in physics from Imperial College London and obtained his PhD is contrast-enhanced MRI at UCL in 2009. Andrew leads the development of advanced quantitative imaging techniques for fetal and neonatal image analysis. With clinical colleagues he designs computational techniques and implements MRI studies to answer research questions in the neonatal and adult brain and is currently developing novel 3T techniques for fetal imaging at University College Hospital.

We hope to see you there.