6:30pm-7:30pm on Tuesday 17 March
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McCrum Lecture Theatre, Behind The Eagle pub on Bene't Street, Corpus Christi College, CB2 3QN
Join us for two talks about medical imaging.
The first, entitled Smile, smile, crocodile!, will feature veterinary and human images obtained using X-rays, ultrasound, CT (computed tomography) and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), including an X-ray of a crocodile!
In this talk, Professor Marie-Aude Genain, Principal Radiologist at the University of Cambridge Veterinary School, will discuss how these images are used to help diagnose the health problems of both the exotic and more typical animals that are seen at the Vet School. Professor Genain will also discuss research that is being developed to improve the diagnosis of animals and humans, and also to aid conservation efforts worldwide.
The second, entitled Magnetic sugar and medical imaging, will present a new medical imaging technique that is being used at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Using magnetic – and slightly heavier – sugar, this technique is facilitating new methods of diagnosis.
Assistant Professor Joshua Kaggie, MRI Physicist at the University of Cambridge Department of Radiology, works on a method called hyperpolarisation. This is the process of magnetising sugars or gases, and imaging them while they are in the human body.
