IHE Podcast: Shining a light inside the body

Medical Physics Researchers Dr Charlotte Maughan Jones and Dr Liam Collins-Jones have been featured in the new podcast 'Health in a Handbasket' from the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering. 

Medical Imaging is the term given to the way in which we can image the body. Think X-rays, MRI, or ultrasounds. All these forms of imaging use small doses of radiation to see inside the body.

Charlotte Maughan Jones and Liam Collins-Jones are working to see the light. They're using medical imaging to scan the body for tendon damage, as is the case with Charlotte, and autism, as is the case with Liam. You might be wondering how they're doing this because isn't x-rays just for bones so how are we able to see the small, fleshy tendons? And how do we use medical imaging to diagnose autism? They're all questions that we'll be answering in this podcast.

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About Charlotte and Liam

Charlotte is a qualified veterinary surgeon and a medical physics research scientist. In the lab, she looks for signs of tendon injury using x-rays and outside of the lab she’s a passionate science communicator spending a lot of time teaching primary school children about the fascinating world of “visible light”.

Liam and Charlotte know each other because Charlotte was Liam’s undergraduate supervisor! Liam’s research involves seeing into the human brain. Liam's work straddles several different research areas, including engineering, physics, psychology and neuroscience.