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SCOPE | CONTENTS THIS ISSUE 50 COVER FEATURE HISTORY IN LONDON The history series continues with changes that took place in science in nineteenthcentury London Cover image © Getty Images 09 IMPLANT DESIGN A novel method to investigate peri-implant bone distribution, to optimise the design of locking implants 08 09 19 MEETING REPORTS 12 ENGINEERING WORLD HEALTH’S WORK IN DEVELOPING WORLD HOSPITALS Emmanuel Akinluyi 16 CAREER PROMOTIONS FOR TECHNOLOGISTS/RADIOGRAPHERS Kim Howe 16 APEN AND ATEN AT THE EUROPEAN MEDICAL PHYSICS CONFERENCE 2011 Sarah Higgins, Ruth Ruddlesden, Richard Axell and Nathan Rivers 19 EUROPEAN MEDICAL PHYSICS AND CLINICAL ENGINEERING CONFERENCE Paul T. Lee 22 24TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON BIOMATERIALS, 2011 Raechelle D’Sa 24 APPROPRIATE HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Emmanuel Akinluyi 26 SPECIFYING, EVALUATING AND SELECTING MEDICAL EQUIPMENT John Amoore 30 24TH ANNUAL CONGRESS OF THE EANM Kimberley Saint 32 ELECTRONS: DOSIMETRY, PLANNING AND TREATMENT James Williams and Susan Buckley 34 EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF MEDICAL PHYSICS – 14TH SESSION Leila Nichol 36 WEST MIDLANDS REGIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING Mark Baker, David Lines, Sarah Higgins, Zoe Adey, Jim Philips, Rebecca Cain 38 IPEM MR-SIG/BC-ISMRM JOINT SESSION Mike Hutton 40 ADVANCED CLINICAL MR IN ONCOLOGY Sarah Bacon and Daniel Wilson REGULARS 03 PRESIDENT’S LETTER A reform agenda 05 EDITORIAL Changes ahead 06 NEWS Stories making headlines around the world 43 INTERNATIONAL NEWS International meetings for 2012 44 MEMBERS’ NEWS New members 2011 46 BOOK REVIEWS Six reviewed books in this issue 32 04 | MARCH 2012 | SCOPE
Scope is the quarterly magazine of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine IPEM Fairmount House, 230 Tadcaster Road, York, YO24 1ES T 01904 610821 F 01904 612279 E office@ipem.ac.uk W www.ipem.ac.uk W www.scopeonline.co.uk EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Marc E. Miquel Clinical Physics, 4th Floor Dominion House, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London EC1A 7BE T +44 (0)203 4655 785 F +44 (0)207 377 7100 E m.e.miquel@qmul.ac.uk ASSISTANT EDITOR Gemma Whitelaw Radiotherapy Physics, Basement, New KGV Building, St Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, London, EC1A 7BE E gemma.whitelaw@barts andthelondon.nhs.uk MEETING REPORTS EDITOR Angela Cotton Head of Non-Ionising Radiation Support, Medical Physics & Bioengineering, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, SO16 3DR E angela.cotton@suht. swest.nhs.uk NEWS EDITORS Usman I. Lula Department of Radiotherapy, Poole Hospital, Longfleet Road, Poole, BH15 2JB E usman.lula@poole.nhs.uk Richard A. Amos Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1840 Old Spanish Trail,Houston, Texas 77054, U.S.A. T + 1 713 563 6894 F + 1 713 563 1521 E richamos@mdanderson. org BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Usman I. Lula Department of Radiotherapy, Poole Hospital, Longfleet Road, Poole, BH15 2JB E usman.lula@poole.nhs.uk ENGINEERING & ACADEMIC EDITOR Dr Constantinos Zervides Radiation Inspection and Control Service, Department of Labour Inspection, Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance, 12 Apelli street, 1493 Nicosia, Cyprus E czervides@dli.mlsi.gov.cy T 00357 22405695 F 00357 22663788 MEMBERS’ NEWS EDITOR Matt Gwilliam Cancer Research UK Clinical MR Research Group, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, SM2 5PT E mattgwills@gmail.com INTERNATIONAL EDITOR (Developing countries) Andrew Gammie Clinical Engineer, Bristol Urological Institute, BS10 5NB T +44(0)117 950 5050 extension 2448 or 5184 E agammie@iee.org INTERNATIONAL EDITOR (North America) Richard A. Amos Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1840 Old Spanish Trail,Houston, Texas 77054, U.S.A. T + 1 713 563 6894 F + 1 713 563 1521 E richamos@mdanderson. org INTERNATIONAL EDITOR Ryan D. Lewis Department of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University, NHS Trust, Singleton Hospital, Swansea, Wales, SA2 8QA T +44(0)179 220 5666 extension 6438 E ryan.lewis@swanseatr.wales.nhs.uk ONLINE EDITOR Position vacant Published on behalf of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine by CENTURY ONE PUBLISHING LTD. Alban Row, 27–31 Verulam Road, St Albans, Herts, AL3 4DG T 01727 893 894 F 01727 893 895 E enquiries@centuryone publishing.ltd.uk W www.centuryone publishing.ltd.uk CHIEF EXECUTIVE Nick Simpson T 01727 893 894 E nick@centuryone publishing.ltd.uk ADVERTISING SALES David Murray T 01727 739 182 E d.murray@centuryone publishing.ltd.uk SUB EDITOR Karen Mclaren E karen@centuryone publishing.ltd.uk DESIGN & PRODUCTION Heena Gudka E studio@centuryone publishing.ltd.uk PRINTED BY Century One Publishing Ltd Scope is published quarterly by the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine but the views expressed are not necessarily the official views of the Institute. Authors instructions and copyright agreement can be found on the IPEM website. Articles should be sent to the appropriate member of the editorial team. By submitting to Scope, you agree to transfer copyright to IPEM. We reserve the right to edit your article. Proofs are not sent to contributors. The integrity of advertising material cannot be guaranteed. Copyright Reproduction in whole or part by any means without written permission of the publisher is strictly forbidden. © IPEM 2012 ISSN 0964-9565 “ Every difficulty is an opportunity and we have been extensively discussing the future of Scope ” FCHANGES AHEAD MARC E. MIQUEL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF COMMENT | SCOPE irst issue of the year and we have a shower of meeting reports, with articles reaching double figures. This is the ideal opportunity to underline the stellar job Angela Cotton is doing as Meeting Reports Editor, without her it would be a lot harder to put an issue together. Meetings have always been central to Scope but with only four issues per year and obvious delays in writing and publishing, reports can sometimes look out-of-date. This was one of the motivations behind the creation of Scope Online. Unfortunately, with the online editor recently resigning – thanks again Damian for all your hard work – we are once again suffering some delays. Every difficulty is an opportunity and we have been extensively discussing the future of Scope and its better integration with the new shiny IPEM website. 2012 should see some changes, not least my long overdue retirement, but hopefully with the format of the magazine, so watch this space. With such a multitude of reports, we only had a very limited space for other articles. Constantinos, our Engineering Editor, provided us with a feature from Switzerland. In this article Damiona Schiuma and his colleagues report on the design optimisation of surgical implants. Obviously, Richard and Usman are reporting on recent news and Usman also collated a selection of book reviews. Once more, we are closing this issue with the popular Francis Duck’s history of medical physics series. Part 5 focuses on London in the nineteenth century. It is not often I have the opportunity to meet Scope contributors and discuss their articles face to face. It was therefore a real pleasure to have lunch with Francis when he came to visit the St Bartholomew’s archives last November. Please, keep sending your contributions and I hope you will enjoy this issue. SCOPE | MARCH 2012 | 05
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