Your anti-twin could be your best friend, Heather Williams (Wuthering Bytes 2019)
Channel: AB Open
Date: 2021-01-28

In most hospitals, there is a department tasked with injecting radioactive materials into patients to diagnose and treat disease. It's called Nuclear Medicine.


Dr Heather Williams has worked as a medical physicist specialising in Nuclear Medicine for over 20 years, with a particular interest in Positron Emission Tomography (PET), an imaging technique which uses anti-matter emitters to map the internal workings of the body. In this interactive lecture, Heather introduces the principles underpinning Nuclear Medicine and PET in particular, describes how the PET scanners work, and shows what PET images mean and the difference they make to her patients.


Dr Heather Williams is a Principal Medical Physicist for Nuclear Medicine at The Christie Hospital and honorary Lecturer at the University of Manchester, focussing on teaching imaging physics and positron emission tomography (PET) research. Heather is also a Director of ScienceGrrl, STEMNET ambassador, and active member of the IPEM Nuclear Medicine Special Interest Group and IoP Women in Physics Group committees. Heather also likes standing up and talking about science, and encouraging others (particularly women) to do so. When she's not busy with all that, Heather enjoys running, hiking and introducing her sons to the wonders of the universe, often at the same time.