Dr Thomas Flohr receives BIR Godfrey Hounsfield Award

The BIR Godfrey Hounsfield Memorial Lecture was delivered by Dr Thomas Flohr at the BIR Annual Congress in September. The award was presented after his talk ‘A brief history of computed tomography – from Hounsfield’s brain scanner to photon-counting CT’. Dr Flohr is associate professor of medical physics at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Dr Flohr’s talk reflected back to the early days of CT and the evolution of the modality through to the application of photon-counting CT in cardiovascular and thoracic imaging. He went on to describe the potential of photon-counting for coronary CTA as, with its high spatial resolution, photon-counting CT can overcome the challenge of providing diagnostic images despite severe calcifications. He also explained the benefits of its use for plaque characterisation.

Dr Flohr said: “I am proud to build on the work of Godfrey Hounsfield, to whom we owe so much, and I am delighted to receive this special award which bears his name.”

Picture: Dr Thomas Flohr (centre) receives his award from BIR past president Dr Sri Redla and president Professor Stephen Keevil.

Published on page 8 of the December 2022 issue of RAD Magazine.