Research Interests

Clinical Studies

Areas of Clinical Research include:

• Prostate cancer
• Breast cancer
• Gynaecological cancer
• Bone cancer
• Multifunctional imaging in Phase 1 trials
• Service development (Radiotherapy using magnetic resonance, head and neck functional imaging)

Therapeutic and Diagnostic Trials

Therapeutic and Diagnostic Trials include:

• Functional Imaging and spectroscopy in Phase 1 trials
• Multicentre studies in gynaecological and prostate cancer
• EORTC trials using multimodality imaging

Methodological Development

Areas in Methodological Development include:

• Functional imaging for tumour characterization and response assessment
• Clinical spectroscopy
• Preclinical spectroscopy
• Breast cancer detection
• Developing hyperpolarisation for clinical evaluation of prostate cancer

Preclinical and Experimental Imaging Studies

Areas in Preclinical and Experimental Studies include:

• Imaging metabolic effects of pathway inhibition
• Imaging vascular effects of therapy
• Imaging functional characteristics of tumour growth (proliferation) and response (apoptosis).
• Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy studies of ex vivo tissues