Welcome to our readers profiles section. Here, you’ll discover the diverse community of professionals and enthusiasts who are passionate about medical imaging. Our readers include radiologists, technologists, researchers, and students, each bringing unique insights and experiences. Explore their profiles to learn more about their backgrounds, interests, and contributions to the field of medical imaging. We celebrate the voices that make our community vibrant and engaging.
RAD Magazine must have been five years old when I qualified. I have been a diagnostic radiographer for 16,582 days as of today (April 29, 2025). To be honest, I thought it was longer; it certainly feels longer than that. I am now semi-retired, working part-time as member of a community team of radiographers in […]
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If you bring any group of radiographers together, before long the conversation will turn to reminiscence. The days of wet processing, film-based imaging and exotic projection techniques long abandoned (do you remember the Stenvers views?). Looking back is what we love to do. So much has changed in imaging and radiotherapy services over the course […]
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My first contact with RAD Magazine was some 50 years ago when I met with former radiographer Dave Roberts, co-founder of the magazine, for lunch in San Lorenzo restaurant opposite The Royal Marsden Hospital in Fulham Road, where Princess Diana used to dine. Sadly, she was not present at the time we met. We discussed […]
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As an experienced general and cardiac radiographer who specialised in breast imaging in 2021, Aodhain McFall is a member of the Belfast Breast Imaging Service Patient Informed Choice (PIC) team and is active in breast awareness endeavours across the Belfast community. Aodhain is also make-up artist with over 20 years’ experience. A Paddy McGurgan academy […]
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As the founder of a small radiology clinic in north Wales, I have been able to steer our business towards a sustainable future from the ground up. Coastal Medical Imaging has now been open more than 12 months and we are learning about how environmentally friendly decisions often align with commercial viability. Working in the […]
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Ever had an inspiring interest to take your profession and use it to take you all over the world, challenge you in ways you never thought possible and all whilst having the flexibility to do this when you want and whilst getting paid for it? What other job gives you these opportunities, the British Army […]
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Medical imaging has consumed all of my adult career—I don’t count the first three and a half years languishing on a dairy farm in upstate New York. Never did I imagine myself, in the twilight of my career, being in an exotic locale like Maui, where I’ve resided, more on than off, for the last […]
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Five years ago, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust became the first hospital in the UK to treat a patient using an MR-linac. This machine delivers radiotherapy with the guidance of an MRI scanner, which allows clinicians, radiographers, and physicists to work together to tailor the treatment precisely for patients in real-time, using detailed imaging. […]
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After David received a raised PSA blood test, he was very apprehensive about having a prostate biopsy. He’d heard lots of negative stories from friends and even cancelled his holiday to Cornwall as he was worried about side effects. To his surprise, a new technique called Vector prostate biopsy meant his procedure only took around […]
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