General Prizes & Awards
IPEM/AAPM Travel Award
| 2005 |
Catherine Coolens
London |
| 2006 |
Not Awarded |
| 2007 |
Andrew Reilly
Edinburgh |
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2008
2009 |
Not Awarded
Lorna Tasker |
IPEM/RCP Essay Prize
| 2005 |
Not Awarded |
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| 2006 |
Paul White, Rajesh Kharbanda, Andrwe Redington |
Development of a Technique to Measure Heart Function Immediately after a Non Surgical Closure of an Atrial Septal Defect |
| 2007 |
Miss M O'Hara |
Non-Invasive Diagnosis? Don't hold your Breath! |
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2008
2009 |
Not Awarded
Dr Panayiotis Kyriacou and
Dr Andy Petros |
The first Oesophageal Miniaturized pulse oximeter for use in neonates. |
Founders' Prize
| 2005 |
Not Awarded |
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| 2006 |
Not Awarded |
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| 2007 |
Not Awarded |
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2008
2009 |
Andrew Reilly. Oxford
Not Awarded |
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Manufacturers' Award
| 2005 |
Ben Heller and Paul Bacon
Iain Chambers and Andy Clark |
For the Sway Pen
For the Pupilometer |
| 2006 |
Bill Allan, Caroline May, Anne hurren, Peter Samuel, Charles Kennedy |
For the Sunderland Air Pressure Meter |
| 2007 |
The Cardiovascular Physics and Engineering Research Group
Regional Medical Physics Department, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne |
For the Multi-Site PPG Pulse System |
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2008
2009
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Dr Panayiotis Kyriacou
London
Professor Andrew Beavis |
Novel miniaturised Oesophageal Pulse Oximetry Sensor
Virtual reality environments for training and education in Radiotherapy |
The Roy Ellis Award
| 2005 |
Not Awarded |
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| 2006 |
Mary Halewood
Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne |
For the The Nuclear Medicine 'Superscan' |
| 2007 |
Not Awarded |
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2008
2009 |
Not Awarded
Not Awarded |
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Annual Scientific Meeting Prizes
Spiers' Prize
| 2005 |
Miss E Bowers
Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne |
Natural Breathing is an efficient protocol for the investigation of baroreflex phase |
| 2006 |
Not Awarded |
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| 2007 |
Not Awarded |
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2008
2009
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Gavin Wright
Roxanne Potts
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For best overall performance in the IPEM Part I Diploma examinations during the previous 12 months
For best overall performance in the IPEM Part I Diploma examinations during the previous 12 months |
President's Prize
| 2005 |
Mr D Eaton
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge |
Topology and optimization of objective functions in Treatment planning |
| 2006 |
Dr J Finlay
Royal United Hospital, Bath |
3D ultrasound imaging of mammary ducts in the breasts of lactating women |
| 2007 |
Clare Bernard |
Quantifying Bone Structure using 3.0 Tesla MRI |
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2008
2009*
2009* |
Emma Bowers
Alison Scott
Mary Cocker |
Getting to the heart of the matter of Catheter placement in neonates
Modelling and measuring small radiotherapy photon fields
Time and spatially-varying magnetic fields measured around a 3T magnet: Are the proposed occupational limits exceeded?
* Two President's Prizes were awarded in 2009. |
Trainee's Prize
| 2005 |
Miss S Elphick
Bristol |
Quantification of Postural Sway |
| 2006 |
Miss H Coward
Kent |
Development of a dynamic phantom for validation of Renogram analysis software in nuclear medicine |
| 2007 |
Christina Agnew |
Wavelet Analysis of Non time Stationary Blood Velocity Waveforms |
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2008
2009
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Stephen Critchley
Dr Jonathan Ashmore
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Collecting dosimetric data to compare the accuracy of treatment planning algorithms at lung boundary
Optimised DTI Tractography of the optic radiation for pre-surgical planning in brain tumour patients |
Poster Prize
| 2005 |
Ms L Spackman
Great Ormond Street Hospital, London |
Can normal variations in behaviour damage vSERP's |
| 2006 |
Miss S Razaq
Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust |
Measurements of induced activity from a 15MV Varian linear accelerator |
| 2007 |
D R Wills |
Some Monte Carlo applications for Radiotherapy |
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2008
2009 |
Not Awarded
Not Awarded |
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Journal Prizes
The Nightingale Prize
| 2005 |
Y Yang, J Magnay, L Cooling, J J Cooper, A Curtis and A J El Haj
Centre for Science&Technology in Medicine, School of Medicine, Keele University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK |
The effects of substrate characteristics on bone cell response to the mechanical environment
Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 42 22-29 (2004) |
| 2006 |
L A Bradshaw, A Myers, W O Richards, W Drake, J P Wikswo
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA |
Vector projection of biomagnetic fields
MBEC, 2005 43, 85-93 |
| 2007 |
M Nielsen, E Kamavuako, M M Andersen, M-F Lucas and D Farina
Aalborg University, Denmark |
Optimal Wavelets for Biomedical Signal Compression
MBEC, 2006, 44 (7) 561-568 |
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2008
2009 |
TBA
Hui-Sun Huang, Yi-Hui Lee, Hsiao-Lung Chan, Yong-Ping Wang, Chi-Hsiang Huang, Shou-Zen Fan, University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan Chang-Gung University Tao-Yuan, Taiwan |
Using a short-term parameter of heart rate variability to distinguish awake from isoflurane anesthetic states |
The Martin Black Prize
| 2005 |
Stephen J Beebe, Peter F Blackmore, Jody White, Ravindra P Joshi and Karl H Schoenbach
Center for Pediatric Research, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Children's Hospital for King's Daughters, Norfolk, VA, USA |
Nanosecond pulsed electric fields modulate cell function through intracellular signal transduction mechanisms
Physiol. Meas. 25 1077-1093 (2004) |
| 2006 |
Jonathan S Maltz and Thomas F Budinger
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, USA |
Evaluation of arterial endothelial function using transit times of artificially induced pulses
Physiol. Meas. 26 3 293-307 |
| 2007 |
T Olbrich, D O Williams, J C Doig and A Murray
Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne |
In vivo assessment of coronary artery angioplasty and stent deployment from balloon pressure-volume data
Physiol. Meas. 27 2006 213-22 |
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2008
2009 |
S M Martens, C Rabotti, M Mischi and R J Sluijter
Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Technology Eindhoven & Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Qiao Li, Roger Mark, Dr Gari Clifford
Harvard-MT Division of Health Sceicnes and Technology, Cambridge MA, USA |
A robust fetal ECG detection method for abdominal recordings
Robust heart rate estimation from multiple asynchronous noisy sources using signal quality indices and a Kalman Filter
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The Jack Perkins Prize
| 2005 |
A Inmann and M Haughland
Alfred E Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA |
Implementation of natural sensory feedback in a portable control system for a hand grasp neuroprosthesis
Med Eng Phy 26 (6) 449-458 (2004) |
| 2006 |
S Li and C Kleinstreuer
Biomechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering Group, North Carolina State University, USA |
Blood flow and structure interactions in a stented abdominal aortic aneurysm
Med Eng Phy 27 (5) 369-382 (2005) |
| 2007 |
E Biddis and T Chau
Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada |
Electroactive polymeric sensors in hand prostheses: bending response of an ionic polymer metal composite
Med Eng Phys 28 (6) 568-578 (2006) |
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2008
2009
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J Poza, R Hornero, D Abasolo, A Fernandez and M Garcia
Amit Gefen, Sigal Portnoy, Idit Diamant Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
Extraction of spectral based measure from MEG background oscillations in Alzheimer's Disease
Inhomogeneity of tissue-level strain distributions in individual trabeculae: Mathematical model studies of normal and osteoporosis cases. |
The Roberts Prize
| 2005 |
Tomoaki Nagaoka, Soichi Watanabe, Kiyoko Sakurai, Etsuo Kunieda, Satoshi Watanabe, Masao Taki and Yukio Yamanaka
Dept of Medical Engineering, Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1-15-1 Kitasato, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 228-8555, Japan |
Development of realistic high-resolution whole-body voxel models of Japanese adult males and females of average height and weight, and application of models to radio-frequency electromagnetic-field dosimetry
Phys. Med. Biol. 49 1-15 (2004) |
| 2006 |
Jonathan S Dysart and Michael S Patterson
Juravinski Cancer Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
Characterisation of Photofrin Photobleaching for singlet oxygen dose estimation during photodynamic therapy of MLL Celles in vitro
Phys. Med. Biol 50 (2005) 2597-2616 |
| 2007 |
M Kraemer and M Scholz
GSI Biophysik, Darmstadt, Germany |
Rapid calculation of biological effects in ion radiotherapy
Phys. Med. Bio 51 (8) (2006) 1959-1970 |
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2008
2009 |
E Claridge Mackonis, N Suchowerska, M Zhang, M Ebert, D R McKenzie, M Jackson
Dept of Radiation Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Camperdown 2050, NSW, Australia & Dept of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia & Dept of Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia
J P Schlomka, E Roessl, R Dorscheid, S Dill, G Martens, T Istel, C Baumer, C Hermann, R Steadman, G Zeitler, A Livne, R Proksa, Philips Research Europe, Aachen, Germany |
Cellular response to modulated radiation fields
Experimental feasbility of multi-energy photo counting K-edge imaging in pre-clinical computed tomography. |
Other Prizes
UKRC Poster Prize
| 2005 |
A J Reilly
Edinburgh Cancer Centre |
Investigation of a photographic grade digital camera for the evaluation of image display devices |
| 2006 |
D Lanvin
University College Hospital, Galway |
Optimisation of digital radiography systems in diagnostic radiology |
| 2007 |
Rosemary Eaton
Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge |
AEC Systems in CT: A Regional Dose Audit |
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2008
2009 |
S Meeson, CM Alvey and SJ Golding
University of Oxford
Sofia Michopoulou
University College Hospital
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Detecting Causes of Abdominal Sepsis with Multi-Slice Computed Tomography
Computer aided quantification of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in MRI
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Eponymous Lectures
Woolmer Lecture
| 2005 |
Dr H Gollee
Centre for Rehabilitation Engineering, University of Glasgow |
Assistive technologies for function restoration |
| 2006 |
Professor Dennis Noble |
Cardiac Modelling |
| 2007 |
Professor Sir Michael Brady |
Colorectal and Liver Cancer Image Analysis |
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2008
2009
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Professor Clive Hahn
Professor Martin Birchall
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Bioengineering Aspects of the Lung: Models and Measurements
Regenerative Medicine: new challenges, new hopes |
Douglas Lea Lecture (Biennial)
| 2005 |
Dr Roger Dale
Radiation Physics and Radiobiology Department, Charing Cross Hospital, London |
Clinical Radiobiology : Into the multi-disciplinary melting pot |
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2007
2009
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Professor J D Chapman
Canada
Professor D J Brenner
USA
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John Mallard Lecture
| 2005 |
Delivered by: Professor P F Sharp
Department of Biomedical Physics and Bioengineering, University of Aberdeen |
Freedom for Imaging |
| 2006 |
Professor M O Leach
Department of Magnetic Resonance, Royal Marsden NHS Trust&Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey |
The Current and Future Role of Magnetic Resonance in Healthcare |
| 2007 |
Professor P Jarritt
Northern Ireland Regional Medical Physics Department, Belfast |
Physics, Function and Fusion: PET imaging developments, applications and opportunities |
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2008
2009 |
Professor P N T Wells
Dr J Cunningham |
Ultrasonic Imaging - An Hollistic View
Terahertz Imaging and Spectroscopy - current and future modalities | |
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