Godfrey Hounsfield Award

The BIR Sir Godfrey Hounsfield Memorial Lecture was delivered by Professor Adrian Brady during The British Institute of Radiology Annual Congress in November. The award was presented by BIR president Professor Stephen Keevil after the talk titled ‘The 21st century radiologist: optimising relevance (while staying sane)’. Professor Brady is clinical professor of radiology at University […]

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 […]

The BIR Godfrey Hounsfield Memorial Lecture was delivered by Professor Vicky Goh at The British Institute of Radiology’s annual congress in November. Professor Goh received her award after her talk on ‘PET-MR: integrating the best of both modalities for cancer care.’ Professor Goh is head of department, cancer imaging, at the School of Biomedical Engineering […]

Professor Andrew Scarsbrook received the Sir Godfrey Hounsfield Memorial Award following delivery of his lecture ‘PETCT: from evolution to revolution’ to a packed auditorium at the BIR annual congress in November. He gave an in-depth analysis of the progress of PETCT from the early development years by Hounsfield through to the current day. A dual-certified […]

Professor Andre Dekker, professor of clinical data science at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, received the Sir Godfrey Hounsfield Memorial Award, following delivery of a lecture entitled ‘Big data for better cancer care’ at the BIR annual congress.  He was presented with the award by BIR president Dr Jane Phillips-Hughes. The talk focused on the […]

Royal Glamorgan Hospital interventional radiologist Dr Gareth Davies with BIR president Andy Rogers. More than 200 delegates attended November’s BIR Annual Congress that was introduced by BIR president Andy Rogers.  The event offered two days and four streams of thought-provoking presentations, with 14 companies in the exhibition. Dr Gareth Davies delivered the Sir Godfrey Hounsfield […]