Nominations closed
Closing date: 29th Febuary
Nominations are now closed for one of the FLUG officer posts. As no additional nominations were received Martin Williams has been re-elected. ...
Call for Abstracts – Extended!
Abstracts of up to 500 words in English are now invited for submission until 29th February. We are initially seeking contributions of approximately 15-20 minutes on any subject of your choosing but especially any work on testing or optimising rotational angiography or other 3D fluoroscopic applications.
We are also wanting to hold a Round Table discussion on issues that you think are important and will be taking offers of a short [<5 minutes] introduction to Round Table issues.
The abstracts will be reviewed and all authors will be notified. Authors of abstracts that successfully passed the review process, will be invited to present their work as an oral presentation.
You should receive a confirmation from us that we have your abstract. If you do not, or you have any other questions, get in touch at team@flug.org.uk...
Officer elected
Andy Rogers has been elected unopposed to replace Ana.
We thank Ana for her hard work, and welcome Andy to the management of FLUG.
Andy is currently the Lead Interventional MPE at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and also the immediate past-President of the British Institute of Radiology. He currently chairs the UK working group investigating how best to set DRLs in interventional procedures. He was recently on an international standards organisation IEC working group to represent the UK in a project looking at the use of dose data held in digital imaging modalities along with being a member of an ICRP working group that has published a report on Diagnostic Reference Levels. He is also a full member of the IEC Maintenance Team for interventional x-ray equipment. His current research interests are observer studies, skin dose assessment and optimisation in interventional cardiology and radiology.
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FLUG 2018 Cancelled
Unfortunately as only two abstracts were received FLUG 2018 has been cancelled.
We will be in touch with members in the next few days to discuss whether and how FLUG will continue....
Video Swallow Protocol
At FLUG 2017 Hazel Gray from Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust presented her work on the effects of higher pulse rates on radiation dose and detection of aspiration and penetration in video fluoroscopy. For full details please refer to the slides that Hazel presented at FLUG 2017 which are available for members to view.
Hazel has kindly agreed to share their protocol which is available below.
We would ask that if any members do make use of Hazel’s protocol that they kindly contact her directly. FLUG officers can provide contact details on request.
Feature image source: Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation Therapy for Dysphagia Caused by Wilson's Disease.
Lee SY, Yang HE, Yang HS, Lee SH, Jeung HW, Park YO - Ann Rehabil Med (2012). CC-BY-NC 3.0...
FLUG Meeting 2017
FLUG successfully held our first annual meeting on the 23rd of November. Thanks to all the speakers for submitting their talks and delegates for making it a very interesting day.
The slides from the day are now available below or here.
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Election results
Martin Williams has been elected to the third FLUG officer post. We'd like to thank all the nominees for standing and the members for voting. Martin joins Ana and Jonathan bringing the FLUG team up to its full compliment....