Dr Garrett McGann,  Consultant Radiologist

Truly amazing images of the heart and brain can be produced with our new Toshiba 320-slice CT scanner, purchased with the aid of local cancer charity Cobalt Appeal Fund.  You will see how this state-of -the-art technology provides hundreds of 0.5 mm ‘slices’ through the body which are manipulated with the aid of specialist software to deliver futuristic images which give invaluable diagnostic information.
This software, used every day by our radiologists, transforms black and white slices into colour 3D – and now even ‘4D’ images!  It behaves intelligently, too, so that radiologists can, for example, ask it to ‘show the head, without any bones’ in order to get the pictures they want. 
You will have the chance to use this software to run together the hundreds of pictures taken during a heart scan to produce a moving image of the beating heart and to remove the skull from head scans to reveal normal and abnormal brain circulations.

All Emergency Trauma Workshops

Saturday June 8^th – Sunday June 9^th  2013

11.00 am – 11.30 am

11.30 am – 12.00 noon

12.30 pm – 1.00 pm

Then

2.00 pm  – 2.30 pm

2.30 pm  – 3.00 pm

3.30 pm  – 4.00 pm

For tickets and more information contact the Science Festival Box Office Tel: 0844 880 8094 or visit the Science Festival website