• Question: What is your biggest scientific achievement?

    Asked by Ewan Rae to Clare, Glafkos, Paul, Samantha on 10 Mar 2015.
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      anon answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      So far I would say my PhD! I found that my experimental data disagreed with a particular theoretical model yet agreed on another which would influence the description of the quarks inside a proton!

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      Clare Devery answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Probably a project I worked on in Dublin. I built an electronic mat that could determine how you were walking. It tracked the timing of footfalls and what angle the foot struck the ground at. Pretty intereting stuff!

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      Glafkos Havariyoun answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      I haven’t had any major scientific achievements (YET 🙂 ) but I am hoping one will come soon! I am currently working on a phantom that mimics how breathing motion in the lungs. We need this to see how well we are correcting for patient breathing motion when we take there images. Some scans can be really long in term of time and when the patient’s chest goes up and down it can blur the images we get!

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      Samantha Terry answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      so far I would say getting the data to allow me to be involved in a clinical trial where we are using radioactive proteins to home in only on the blood vessels around tumors!

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      Paul Booker answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      This is a really hard question – I’d have to say getting registered as clinical scientist! When I did the training it took about 4.5 years after your degree, I had to do another degree, produce 4 portfolios of my work and have 4 viva exams (an exam where 1-2 people ask you questions, a bit like an interview). I was really pleased once I’d finished though as I thought I’d managed to produce good work both in terms of routine help in our department and project and development work.

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