Research Publications
Our department is actively engaged in research and strives to ensure our activities reflect the latest advances in medical physics.
Medical Engineering
J Silver, Design and Usability: Alarm Management in Hospital Patient Monitoring Philips Healthcare, Hospital Patient Monitoring User Group, 2025
J Silver, Vacuum ECG in the UK: can it work? Patients and operators think so EBME Expo, Coventry, UK. June 2026.
Radiation Protection
KC Potter, J Kyrou, JV Cook Comparison of the radiation dose to the breast during CT Pulmnonary angiographyand lung perfusion scanning. Implications for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in pregnancy VITA Medical Newsletter, 2006
H Seymour, M Matson, A Belli, R Morgan, J Kyriou, U Patel Rotational digital subtration angiography of the renal arteries: technique and evaluation in the study of native and transplant renal arteries. The British Journal of Radiology 74, 124 - 141, 2001
J V Cook, J Kyriou, A Pettet, M Fitzgerald, K Shah, S Pablot Key Factors in the optimization of Paediatric X-ray practice. The British Journal of Radiology 74, 1032-1040 10.1259/bjr.74.887.741032, 2001
D Johnson, J Kyriou, E Morton, A Clifton, M Fitzgerald, E Macsweeney 2001 Radiation Protection in Interventional Radiology Clinical Rad 56 99-106 10.1053/crad.2000.0640, 2001
S Heenan, J Kyriou, M Fitzgerald, E Adam 2000 Effective Dose at Pneumatic Reduction of Paediatric Intussusception Clinical Rad 55, 811-816 10.1053/crad.2000.0481, 2000
J Cook, K Shah, S Pablot, J Kyriou, A Pettett, M Fitzgerald X-Ray Imaging of Children (A manual for all X-ray departments) The British Journal of Radiology 10.1016/S1078-8174(99)90043-3, 1999
J Kyriou, M Fitzgerald, A Pettett, J Cook, S Pablot A comparison of doses and techniques between specialist and non-specialist centres in the diagnostic X-ray imaging of children The British Journal of Radiology, 69, 437-450 10.1259/0007-1285-69-821-437, 1996
KC Potter, J Kyriou, JV Cook Comparison of the radiation dose to the breast during CT Pulmonary angiography and lung perfusion scanning. implications for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in pregnancy
Nuclear Medicine
W Heetun, A Paramithas Optimising SeHCAT Imaging Time without Compromising Diagnostic Integrity BNMS 2024
S Meaney, A Paramithas, A Meadows Characterization of AMERCARE Automatic Dose Dispensers BNMS 2024
A Paramithas, W Heetun, A List, R Norman, L Chang, L Fowles Evaluating the impact of quantification on diagnostic confidence in DATScan interpretation BNMS 2024
S Lim, R Callister, A Paramithas Evaluation of the feasibility of using VARSKIN+ for extravasation dosimetry and the effect of source geometry on dose calculations BNMS 2024
A Paramithas, S Carter, J O'Brien, P Strouhal, N Trinidad, P Webster Harmonisation of digital to analogue PET/CT systems for continued recruitment in ongoing clinical trials BNMS 2023
S Lim, A Paramithas, A Meadows Characterisation of an automatic dose dispenser for mobile PET/CT BNMS 2023
J Hubber, R Callister, A Paramithas Initial Experience using the HaNNA Mannikin Phantom - A training tool for gammaprobe use in Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Procedures BNMS 2022
J Hubber, Y Azma, A requirement for a pre-determined geometry factor when counting Tc99m = DTPA patient samples of non-standard volumes in GFR Measurement BNMS 2020
Optimisation of simultaneous measurement of intrinsic count rate performance on dual headed Gamma Cameras BNMS 2020
Ultrasound
V Chandaria, E Ofo, A Killingback Creation of an Interventional Neck Ultrasound Phantom, British Medical Ultrasound Society, Poster https://www.bmus.org/media/resources/files/37_Vikesh_Chandaria.pdf 2024
L Kwan, A Killingback, P Adds Ultrasound Measurement of Lateral Patellar Displacement: A Cadaveric Validation Study Int J Sports Phys Ther. 17(6):1113-1118 doi: 10.26603/001c.38172 2022
Q Torrente, A Killingback, C Robertson, P J Adds The Effect of Self-Myofascial Release on the Pennation Angle of the Vastus Medialis Oblique and the Vastus Lateralis in Athletic Male Individuals: An Ultrasound Investigation Int J Sports Phys Ther 1;17(4):636-642 doi: 10.26603/001c.35591 2022
J Bethel, A Killingback, C Robertson, PJ Adds The effect of stretching exercises on the fibre angle of the vastus lateralis and vastus medialis oblique: an ultrasound study J. Phys. Ther. Sci. 34: 161-166 doi: 10.1589/jpts.34.161 2022
P Minh Van, A Killingback, D Hamilton, PJ Adds Supraclavicular Nerves: Is There a "Safe Zone" for Surgical Fixation of the Clavicle? A Cadaveric Study, Int J Cadaver Stud Ant Var 3(1) https://doi.org/10.61797/IJCSAV.V3I1.145 2022
L Kwan, A Killingback, C Robertson, P Adds Ultrasound investigation into the relationship between hip adduction and the patellofemoral joint J Phys Ther Sci 33(7):511-516 doi: 10.1589/jpts.33.511 2021
L Kwan, A Killingback, C Robertson, P Adds Hip adduction and patellar tilt: an ultrasound investigation and cadaveric validation study. Presentation 2019
Z Hilal, C Robertson, A Killingback, P Adds The Effect of Exercise and Electrical Muscle Stimulation on the Architecture of the Vastus Medialis Oblique-The 'Empi' Electrotherapy System Global Journal of orthopaedic Research doi: 10.33552/GJOR.2018.01.000503 2018
A Elniel, CJ Robertson , A Killingback , PJ Adds Open-chain vs. closed-chain exercise regimes: an ultrasound investigation into the effects of exercise on the vastus medialis oblique Phys Ther Rehabil 4:3 doi: 10.7243/2055-2386-4-3 2017
H Arnantha, CJ Robertson , A Killingback, PJ Adds Maintenance of exercise-induced changes in the architecture of the VMO: how much is enough? An in-vivo ultrasound study Orthop Spine Sports Med 1:1 003 2017
M Khoshkhoo, A Killingback, CJ Robertson, PJ Adds The effect of exercise on vastus medialis oblique muscle architecture: an ultrasound investigation Clin Anat 29(6): 752-758 doi: 10.1002/ca.22710 2016
AJ Benjafield, A Killingback , CJ Robertson, PJ Adds An investigation into the architecture of the vastus medialis oblique muscle in athletic and sedentary individuals: an in-vivo ultrasound study Clin Anat 28 (2): 262-268 doi: 10.1002/ca.22457 2015
S Engelina, T. Antonios, CJ Robertson, A Killingback, PJ Adds Ultrasound investigation of vastus medialis oblique (VMO) muscle architecture: an in-vivo study Clin Anat 27 (7): 1076-1084 doi: 10.1002/ca.22413 2014
A Benjafield, FA Howe, A Killingback, PJ Adds Rare Variant of vastus medialis detected by ultrasound and confirmed by high-resolution MRI J Phys Ther Sci 26 (1): 165-166 doi: 10.1589/jpts.26.165 2014
S Engelina, CJ Robertson, CJ Moggridge, A Killingback, PJ Adds. Using ultrasound to measure the fibre angle of vastus medialis oblique: A cadaveric validation study The Knee 21(1): 107-111 doi: 10.1016/j.knee.2012.07.001 2014
J Moggridge and A Killingback, Basic 3D and 4D ultrasound imaging Reverberations pp 13-18 2005
A Killingback, V Newey, J Chan, C Buland, D Nassiri, A survey of probe self-heating in diagnostic inter-cavity probes Ultrasound 12 p248 2004
A Killingback, M Thomas and D Nassiri, Development of a phantom for imaging performance tests of high frequency scanners European J of Ultrasound 13(1) p S22 2001
MRI
E Redpath, K Bolhassan, V Ejindu, Y Mango, T Mcguckin, K Norwood, R O'Keefe, Z Pang, L Pearlman, C Sanders, M Siebachmeyer, C Starling, N Papadakos, Clinical implementation and optimisation of Deep learning-based MRI reconstruction for accelerated knee imaging: A multidisciplinary approach BIR AI Congress 2025
D Livingstone, L Israel, E Redpath, C Sanders, F Elmslie, J. Kingswood, A Elstob, U Patel, N Annear, A Wale, The use of imaging to determine response to mTORi in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) and kidney angiomyolipomas (AMLs) UK Kidney Week 2024
E Redpath, L Pearman, Getting the most from your MRI scanner BSPR 2024.
E Redpath, M Rata, E Scurr, G Hopkinson, J Hughes, N Tunariu, C Messiou, D Koh, G Charles-Edwards, J Winfield, Assessment of B1 transmit methods to improve signal homogeneity in whole-body diffusion-weighted MRI at 3T ESMRMB 2024.
Z Pang, M Schmidt, E Kousi, J Hughes, Investigating the Accuracy of PD Measurements at 3T ISMRM 2023. Neurodegeneration IV 2023
R Goodburn, E Kousi, C Sanders. Quantitative background parenchymal enhancement and fibro-glandular density at breast MRI: Association with BRCA status European Radiology 33(9): 6204-6212 doi: 10.1007/s00330-023-09819-2 2023
C Sanders. Audit of implant safety queries submitted to an MRI physicist in an NHS hospital Poster at ISMRM Workshop on MR Safety, ensuring safety from first principles to best practices 2019
C Sanders, D Rowland, J Evans. The Air Reverberation Test: Is It Fit For Purpose? Presentation at IPEM Ultrasound Update 2016
