Trainee Clinical Scientist in Bioinformatics within the Medical Physics departmentCreating computer-related interfaces to control specialist medical equipment.Commissioning and approving computer-related interfaces for clinical use.Ensuring that the equipment and computer-related interfaces are continually fit for purpose.Constructing software to model biological processes, investigations, and treatments and toinvestigate and manipulate data produced by medical… Show more Trainee Clinical Scientist in Bioinformatics within the Medical Physics departmentCreating computer-related interfaces to control specialist medical equipment.Commissioning and approving computer-related interfaces for clinical use.Ensuring that the equipment and computer-related interfaces are continually fit for purpose.Constructing software to model biological processes, investigations, and treatments and toinvestigate and manipulate data produced by medical devices.Projects involved: • Development of software in R to fully automate and speed up the process of the dose report generation covering the CT modality.• Creation of a database to record and manage the environmental monitoring, as well as generating statistics within the Radiation Physics department.• Development of image processing software in Matlab to automate the CNR calculation of mammographic test images during the AEC testing. • Performing a radiation dose analysis in R for the Coronary Angiographies and Percutaneous Coronary Interventions to establish a more robust way to compare radiation-dose distributions from different Trusts to cumulative National dose data (NDRLs) across the UK. Show less

Visiting the areas of DR, MRI, Ultrasound, and Nuclear Medicine (incl. the PET/CT scanner), as well as the IT department, to gain experience and witness how they routinely work.