User:Garry McDermott

Academic Qualifications • BSc physics - Bath University 1998-2002 • MSc medical physics - Surrey University 2002-2003 • PhD medical imaging - Aberdeen University 2003-2007

Relevant Employment • Clinical Scientist Training - Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust 2007-2010 • Clinical Scientist - Nuclear Medicine (specializing in PET/CT) - Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 2010-present

Professional Qualifications • HCPC Clinical Scientist Registration (no. CS17713)

Publications 1. McDermott GM, Welch A, Staff RT, et al: FDG-PET for prediction of chemotherapy response in primary breast cancer patients. Nucl Med Commun 27: 297, 2006 (Abstract) 2. McDermott GM, Welch A, Staff RT: Monitoring the pathological response of primary breast tumors throughout neoadjuvant chemotherapy using FDG-PET. J Nucl Med 47(suppl. 1): 553P, 2006 (Abstract) 3. McDermott GM, Welch A, Staff RT, et al: Monitoring primary breast cancer throughout chemotherapy using FDG-PET. Breast Cancer Res Treat 102: 75-84, 2007 4. Lovell LM, Staff RT, McDermott G, et al: Longitudinal FDG-PET monitoring of breast cancer and survival. Nuclear Medicine Commun 30: 383, 2009 (Abstract) 5. McDermott GM & Buckle AH: Monitoring Linear Accelerator Output Constancy using the PTW-Linacheck. Medical Dosimetry 36: 71-4, 2011 6. McDermott G, Iball G, Scarsbrook A: The potential pitfalls of low-activity protocols in PET/CT imaging. Eur J Med Mol Imaging 38: 185-7, 2011 7. McDermott G, Chowdhury F, Scarsbrook A: Variation of qualitative and semi-quantitative PET image quality parameters with acquisition time, injection activity and patient body mass. Eur J Med Mol Imaging 38 (Suppl 2): S129, 2011 (Abstract) 8. McDermott G, Chowdhury F, Scarsbrook A: Evaluation of noise equivalent count parameters as indicators of adult whole-body FDG-PET image quality. Ann Nucl Med 27: 855-61, 2013