news – Fluoroscopy Users' Group

FLUG Webinar Series January 2025

13th December 202413th December 2024 By Jonathan Cole Comment Closed

Weekly throughout January 2025 FLUG will be running a webinar series covering a range of topical issues related to the use of fluoroscopy in medicine. Attendance is free, though there will be a small charge for a certificate of attendance if required. Thursday 9th January – 14:00 UTC+0 Staff Radiation Safety: Balancing radiation & non-radiation risksProfessor Steve Balter[Professor of Clinical Radiology, Columbia University Medical School, NewYork City] Register now Thursday 16th January – 14:00 UTC+0 Results from the BSIR survey of UK Interventional Radiology radiationprotection practiceDr. Bella Hausen[Consultant Interventional Radiologist, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals] Register now Thursday 23th January – 14:00 UTC+0 1.Radiographer advanced practice in Uroradiology interventionsObinna Nwankwo[Advanced Uroradiology Practitioner, Interventional Radiology Theatres,Nottingham University Hospitals]2.Nottingham’s vascular access service: an evolutionKimberley Croome[Advanced Radiology Vascular Practitioner, Interventional RadiologyTheatres, Nottingham University Hospitals] Register now ...

Call for abstracts

28th February 202428th February 2024 By Jonathan Cole Comment Closed

FLUG is holding its 2024 meeting on 4th July in Nottingham. As the FLUG team prepares the timetable we would like to invite proffered presentations [anything between 10-20 minutes, just specify] and also ideas for wider discussion. We especially welcome proffered presentations on novel quality control methods (e.g. CBCT, movement issues such as lag, CNR-based control logic etc) along with any case studies on optimisation of either the patient dose/IQ balance or staff occupational dose. Please keep your submitted abstracts to 500 words or less. Please send your abstracts to team@flug.org.uk as well as ideas for round-table discussions. ...

FLUG 2024 – save the date 04/07

22nd February 202422nd February 2024 By Jonathan Cole Comment Closed

FLUG will be hosting a face to face meeting in Nottingham on the 4th of July. A call for abstracts will be issued shortly, but if you have ideas for invited speakers, topics of interest or content you'd like to see let us know at team@flug.org.uk ...

Officer elected

20th October 202315th March 2024 By Jonathan Cole Comment Closed

Following the FLUG AGM Hannah Scott has been elected as a FLUG officer. Hannah, based in Cardiff, is the Lead MPE for high dose modalities, covering NHS organisations across South East Wales. Her interest in fluoroscopy started with her MSc project and from undertaking testing of the equipment. ...

Nominations open

15th August 202322nd February 2024 By Jonathan Cole Comment Closed

We have one FLUG officer post coming up for re-election. Nominations are open to all FLUG members. If you'd like to know more about management of FLUG or the projects you could be involved with please get in touch. If you'd like to apply email nominations@flug.org.uk with the name and email address of the nominee along with about 100 words about the nominee's experience....

FLUG 2020 Online

9th June 202027th June 2020 By Jonathan Cole Comment Closed

Due to COVID19 the face to face FLUG 2020 meeting was postponed. We are now pleased to announce FLUG 2020 will be going ahead as a virtual meeting. The second session is on the 2nd July. You can register here. ...

Nominations closed

7th March 202012th March 2020 By Jonathan Cole Comment 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!

16th January 20207th February 2020 By Jonathan Cole Comment Closed

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

28th March 201928th March 2019 By Jonathan Cole Comment Closed

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. ...

Election results

2nd August 20172nd August 2017 By Jonathan Cole Comment Closed

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....