Past Winners 

General Prizes and Awards

IPEM/AAPM Travel Award

2011 Christopher Boylan, Manchester
2010 Young K Lee, Sutton, Surrey
2009 Lorna Tasker
2008 Not Awarded
2007 Andrew Reilly, Edinburgh
2006 Not Awarded
2005 Catherine Coolens, London
IPEM/RCP Essay Prize
2011 Not Awarded
2010 Charlotte Platten, Jonathan Wyllie, Fiona Wood: A Dimensionally realistic manikin for the assessment of the resuscitation equipment and techniques used on premature infants
2009 Panayiotis Kyriacou and Andy Petros : The first Oesophageal Miniaturized pulse oximeter for use in neonates
2008 Not Awarded 
2007 Margaret O'Hara : Non-Invasive Diagnosis? Don't hold your Breath!
2006 Paul White, Rajesh Kharbanda & Andrew Redington : Development of a Technique to Measure Heart Function Immediately after a Non Surgical Closure of an Atrial Septal Defect
2005 Not Awarded
2004 Dr D W Davies and Dr M A Tooley
The Founders' Prize
2011 Not Awarded
2010 Not Awarded
2009 Andrew Reilly, Oxford
2008 Not Awarded
2007 Not Awarded
2006 Not Awarded 
2005 Not Awarded 
Spiers Prize
2011 Elizabeth Tunnicliffe, Oxford
2010 Stephen Wastling,
2009 Roxanne Potts, 
2008 Gavin Wright,
2007 Not Awarded
2006 Not Awarded
2005 Miss E Bowers, Newcastle Upon Tyne
The Manufacturers' Award
2011 Vicky Curling, London: A study of the occupant restraint path in a bespoke seating system
2010 Not Awarded
2009  Professor Andrew Beavis: Virtual reality environments for training and education in radiotherapy
2008 Dr Panayiotis Kyriacou, London: Novel miniaturised oesophageal pulse oximetry sensor
2007 The Cardiovascular Physics and Engineering Research Group, Regional Medical Physics Department, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Multi-site PPG pulse system
2006 Bill Allan, Caroline May, Anne Hurren, Peter Samuel, Charles Kennedy: Sunderland air pressure meter
2005 Ben Heller and Paul Bacon: Sway pen
Iain Chambers and Andy Clark: Pupilometer
The Roy Ellis Award
2011 Not Awarded
2010 Lucy Wills, Cardiff: Effect of Planning Algorithms in oesophageal radiotherapy in the context of the SCOPE 1 Trial
2009 Not Awarded
2008 Not Awarded
2007 Not Awarded
2006 Mary Halewood, Newcastle upon Tyne: The Nuclear Medicine 'Superscan' 
2005 Not Awarded
Annual Scientific Meeting Prizes
President's Prize
2011 N Stone, M Kerssens, M Sattlecker, R Baker, P Matousek, K Rogers: Probing disease-specific breast calcification using light
2010 Aaron Jerling: Development of a fibre optic hydrophone for the characterisation of diagnostic and therapeutic medical ultrasound
2009* Alison Scott: Modelling and measuring small radiotherapy photon fields; and
Mary Cocker: Time and spatially-varying magnetic fields measured around a 3T magnet: are the proposed occupational limits exceeded?
2008 Emma Bowers: Getting to the heart of the matter of catheter placement in neonates
2007 Clare Bernard: Quantifying bone structure using 3.0 Tesla MRI
2006  Dr J Finlay Royal United Hospital, Bath: 3D ultrasound imaging of mammary ducts in the breasts of lactating women
2005 Mr D Eaton Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge: Topology and optimization of objective functions in treatment planning 
* Two President's Prizes were awarded in 2009.
Trainee's Prize
2011 D Darios, M Bidmead, C Nalder: Anisotrophy measurements for HRD 192lr brachytherapy source using radiochromic films
2010 Ian Seedhouse: A mathematical model for the measurement of peak skin dose delivered during an interventional cardiac procedure
2009 Dr Jonathan Ashmore : Optimised DTI Tractography of the optic radiation for pre-surgical planning in brain tumour patients
2008 Stephen Critchley : Collecting dosimetric data to compare the accuracy of treatment planning algorithms at lung boundary
2007 Christina Agnew : Wavelet Analysis of Non time Stationary Blood Velocity Waveforms
2006 Miss H Coward Kent : Development of a dynamic phantom for validation of Renogram analysis software in nuclear medicine
2005 Miss S Elphick Bristol : Quantification of Postural Sway
Poster Prize
2011 A Rashidnasab, M Yip, K Young, K Wells: Simulation of breast lesions
2010 B Tahir, C Bragg, S Lawless, M Hatton, R Ireland Dosimetric evaluation of inspriation and expiration breath-hold for intensity modulated radiotherapy planning of non-small cell lung cancer
2009 Not Awarded
2008  Not Awarded
2007 D R Wills : Some Monte Carlo applications for Radiotherapy
2006 Miss S Razaq Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust : Measurements of induced activity from a 15MV Varian linear accelerator
2005 Ms L Spackman Great Ormond Street Hospital, London : Can normal variations in behaviour damage vSERP's
Journal Prizes
The Nightingale Prize
2011 C Guerro-Mosquera, A Malanda-Trigueros, J Iriate-Franco, A Navia-Vazquez: New feature extraction approach for epileptic EEG signal detection using time-frequency distributions
2010 L P Li, J T M Cheung, W Herzog, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada: Three-dimensional fibril-reinforced finite element model of articular cartilage
2009 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
2008
2007  M Nielsen, E Kamavuako, M M Andersen, M-F Lucas and D Farina Aalborg University, Denmark  : Optimal Wavelets for Biomedical Signal CompressionMBEC, 2006, 44 (7) 561-568
2006  L A Bradshaw, A Myers, W O Richards, W Drake, J P Wikswo Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA : Vector projection of biomagnetic fieldsMBEC, 2005 43, 85-93
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 environmentMed. Biol. Eng. Comput. 42 22-29 (2004)
The Martin Black Prize
2011 M O Mendez, J Corhout, S Van Huffel, M Matteucci, T Penzel, S Cerutti, M Bianchi: Automatic screening of obstructive sleep apnea from the ECG based on empirical mode decomposition and wavelet analysis
2010 A Adler, J Arnold, R Bayford, A B Borsic B Brown, P Dixon, T J C Faes, I Frerichs, H Gagnon, Y Garber, B Grychtol, G Hahn, W Lionheart, A Malik, R Patterson, J Stocks, A Tizzard, N Weiler, G Wolf: For GREIT: a unified approach to 2D linear EIT reconstruction of lung images
2009 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
2008 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 : A Robust fetal ECG detection method for abdominal recordings
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 dataPhysiol. Meas. 27 2006 213-22
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 pulsesPhysiol. Meas. 26 3 293-307
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 mechanismsPhysiol. Meas. 25 1077-1093 (2004)
The Jack Perkins Prize
2011 R Bryan, PS Mohan, A Hopkins, F Galloway, M Taylor, P B Nair: Statistical modelling of the whole human femur incorporating geometric and material properties
2010 Caroline Lauret, Matej Hrapko, Hans van Dommelen, Gerrit Peters, Jac Wismans, Materials Technology Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology: Optical characterisation of acceleration-induced strain fields in inhomogeneous brain slices
2009 Amit Gefen, Sigal Portnoy, Idit Diamant Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel : Inhomogeneity of tissue-level strain distributions in individual trabeculae: Mathematical model studies of normal and osteoporosis cases.
2008 J Poza, R Hornero, D Abasolo, A Fernandez and M Garcia : Extraction of spectral based measure from MEG background oscillations in Alzheimer's DiseaseInhomogeneity of tissue-level strain distributions in individual trabeculae: Mathematical model studies of normal and osteoporosis cases.
2007 E Biddis and T ChauInstitute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada : Electroactive polymeric sensors in hand prostheses: bending response of an ionic polymer metal compositeMed Eng Phys 28 (6) 568-578 (2006)
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 aneurysmMed Eng Phy 27 (5) 369-382 (2005)
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 neuroprosthesisMed Eng Phy 26 (6) 449-458 (2004)
The Roberts Prize
2011 M M Paulides, J F Bakker, M Lnthorst, J van der Zee, Z Rijnen, E Neufeld, PMT Pattynama, PP Jansen, P C Levendag, G C van Rhoon: The clinical feasibility of deep hyperthermia treatment in the head and neck: new callenges for positioning and temperature measurement
2010 Edward, Zhang, Jan Laufer, Barbara Pedley, Paul Beard, University College, London: In vivo high-resolution 3D photoacoustic imaging of superficial vascular anatomy
2009 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 : Experimental feasbility of multi-energy photo counting K-edge imaging in pre-clinical computed tomography.
2008 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 : Cellular response to modulated radiation fields
2007 M Kraemer and M ScholzGSI Biophysik, Darmstadt, Germany : Rapid calculation of biological effects in ion radiotherapyPhys. Med. Bio 51 (8) (2006) 1959-1970
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 vitroPhys. Med. Biol 50 (2005) 2597-2616
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 dosimetryPhys. Med. Biol. 49 1-15 (2004) 
Other Prizes
UKRC Poster Prize
2011 A Belfield, S Guest, E Holt, J Kelsall, T Mashinini, C Mitchell A-M Moran, k Prow, l Sweetman, B Walker: Save our skins: indentification and follow-up of patients at risk of skin injury from cardiac catheterisation procedures
2010 Not awarded
2009 CM Alvey and SJ Golding Sofia Michopoulou University College Hospital : Computer aided quantification of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in MRI
2008  S Meeson University of Oxford : Diagnostic Accuracy of Detecting Causes of Abdominal Sepsis with Multi-Slice Computed Tomography
2007  Rosemary Eaton Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge : AEC Systems in CT: A Regional Dose Audit
2006 D Lavin University College Hospital, Galway : Optimisation of digital radiography systems in diagnostic radiology
2005 A J Reilly Edinburgh Cancer Centre : Investigation of a photographic grade digital camera for the evaluation of image display devices Eponymous Lectures