MCGOWAN GROUP

RESEARCH SUMMARY

Our clinical academic group conducts a range of medical physics and clinical engineering research within the hospital and university.  A particular focus is on molecular imaging and molecular radiotherapy (also called theranostics).  The group aims to maximise the amount of information available from these types of images either through extraction of imaging features (radiomics) or through different image reconstruction methods to improve image quality and quantification.

Our group hosts MSc students from the MSc program, of which Daniel McGowan is Course Director.  These projects include analysing data from imaging studies which he is a co-investigator on such as ATOM and ARCADIAN.  Some of these students have gone on to publish their work, for example Bourigalt et al. EJNMMI Research (2021) and Bourigalt et al. Scientific Reports (2022) 

Our group collaborates with industry partners such as GE HealthCare and Hermes Medical Solutions.  

IMPACT

The group has tested a range of tools which are now in widespread clinical practice.  The most recent example is work on deep learning image enhancement which has been commercialised as Precision-DL by GE HealthCare