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I qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist in 1999 and soon after specialised in working with adults with dysphagia.  I have been performing Videofluoroscopy assessments as a Lead Speech and Language Therapist since 2006.  My previous posts have been at the Royal Free Hospital, Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, St Mary’s Hospital (Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust) and Barts Health NHS Trust. I have been in my current post at  Luton and Dunstable Hospital for 5 years as a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist in Head and Neck Cancer. Along with Katherine and my SLT colleagues, we have been working towards improving the capacity in Videofluoroscopy  clinics as well as standardising clinic procedures and reporting. ...

Michael Sandborg works as senior medical physicist, radiation protection expert and adjunct professor at Linköping University hospital and Centre for Medical Image Science and Visualization CMIV, Linköping University, Sweden. His professional focus is on quality assurance, dosimetry, image quality assessment, optimization and radiation protection in x-ray imaging, especially in CT, mammography and interventional radiology. The research work is primarily related on optimization of x-ray imaging methods, currently using clinical image criteria in close collaboration with radiologist and radiographers. He is teaching radiation protection, medicalradiation physics and imaging informatics to students at Linköping University and clinical staff at the university hospital and is supervising PhD students. ...

Stephen Balter, Ph.D. is a Professor of Clinical Radiology (physics) at Columbia University in New York City. His primary clinical responsibility is in a high volume interventional cardiology department. ​Dr. Balter is ABR certified and licensed by New York State in the areas of Diagnostic Imaging, Therapeutic Radiology, and Medical Health Physics. He received his Masters in Radiological Physics from Columbia, and his Ph.D. in Experimental Physics, from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.Dr. Balter is an active participant in several physical and clinical societies. He is an elected fellow in the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), American College of Medical Physics (ACMP),American College of Radiology (ACR), Society for Cardiac Imaging and Interventions (SCAI), and the Society for Interventional Radiology (SIR). He is a member of Council of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), and currently serves on three International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) working groups.Dr. Balter’s interests have focused on brachytherapy, interventional radiology, and related health-physics topics. He...

Webinar outline: IntroductionWhat is Video fluoroscopy (VF)?Aims & Objectives of VFTypes of patients referred for VFEquipment / radiographic techniqueTransition from a subjective to an progressively more objective examinationStandardisation of contrast samplesMBSIMP protocolRadiation dose / screening time / pulse rateImage interpretation and reportingPathologies identified - penetration, aspiration, physical abnormality, cause of dysphagiaManagement options and treatment strategies ...

Radiography is my second career, my first was working as a industrial chemist for Amersham International in their manufacturing labs. My team made beta emitting radiolabelled (P32 / S35) nucleotides for the life science industry. I took redundancy from that role after 10 years (6 in the labs and 4 in technical support) and went back to university to study radiography. I qualified in 2009 and have been a senior advanced practitioner radiographer and RPS at Luton & Dunstable hospital for the last 6 years. I am the first and only radiographer at Luton to have completed the barium swallow advanced practice course, so I do my own screening lists independently of a radiologist. I also report my own studies as an autonomous practitioner. Over the last 18 months, together with the speech & language therapists, I have pioneered the introduction of our joint video-fluoroscopy clinics. ...