Dr Rob Ireland

Lecturer (MR Physics and Radiotherapy Imaging)

Academic Unit of Radiology
University of Sheffield
Floor C
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Glossop Road
Sheffield
S10 2JF

Telephone 0114 226 5363
Fax 0114 271 1714
Email r.ireland@sheffield.ac.uk

Position

• Lecturer, Academic Units of Radiology and Clinical Oncology, University of Sheffield
• Honorary Clinical Scientist, Radiotherapy Physics, Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

Research Interests

Hyperpolarised helium-3 MRI

• Role of helium-3 MRI in radiotherapy treatment planning for non-small-cell lung cancer patients

PET

• Role of PET in radiotherapy treatment planning for head and neck cancer patients

Lung Tumour Motion

• MRI and 4DCT analysis of tumour motion

Image processing

• Anatomically constrained image reconstruction
• Applications of non-rigid image registration

Electrical impedance

• Development of magnetic detection electrical impedance tomography

Diabetes research

• Analysis of ECG changes during hypoglycaemia

Awards

• National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Postdoctoral Award (2005 - 2008)
• Action Medical Research, Research Training Fellowship (1999 - 2001)

Grants

• Weston Park Hospital Cancer Appeal
• Yorkshire Cancer Research
• Sheffield Hospitals Charitable Trust

Teaching

• Role of PET in radiotherapy treatment planning (MSc, Sheffield Hallam University; MSc, University of Liverpool)

Education & Qualifications

• 2004 - State Registered Clinical Scientist (UK)
• 2002 - PhD “Anatomically constrained image reconstruction applied to emission computed tomography & magnetic impedance tomography” University of Sheffield
• 1996 - Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Physics, IPEM
• 1994 - MMedSci Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering, University of Sheffield
• 1993 - MSc Mathematical Modelling & Numerical Analysis, University of Oxford
• 1992 - BSc Mathematics, University of Leicester

Previous Appointments

• 2003 - 2005
  Honorary Research Fellow, Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, University of Sheffield
• 2001 - 2005
  Research Physicist, Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
• 1995 - 2001
  Research Associate, Medical Physics & Diabetes Research, University of Sheffield
• 1993 - 1995
  Grade A Medical Physicist, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Institute of Physics & Engineering in Medicine (IPEM)
• International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)

Publications

Bates EL, Bragg CM, Wild JM, Hatton MQ, Ireland RH. Functional image-based radiotherapy planning for non-small cell lung cancer: A simulation study. Radiotherapy and Oncology, In press, 2009 (DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc. 2009.05.018)

Ireland RH, Woodhouse N, Hoggard N, Swinscoe
JA, Foran BH, Hatton MQ, Wild JM. An image acquisition and registration strategy for the fusion of hyperpolarized helium-3 MRI and x-ray CT images of the lung. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 53: 6055-6063, 2008 (DOI: 1088/0031-9155/53/21/011)

Ireland RH, Dyker KE, Barber DC, Wood SM, Hanney MB, Tindale WB, Woodhouse N, Hoggard N, Conway J, Robinson MH. Non-rigid image registration for head and neck cancer radiotherapy treatment planning with PET. International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, 68(3): 952-957, 2007 (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.02.017)

Ireland RH, Bragg CM, McJury M, Woodhouse N, Van Beek EJR, Wild JM, Hatton MQ. Feasibility of image registration and IMRT planning with hyperpolarized helium-3 MRI for non-small cell lung cancer. International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, 68(1): 273-281, 2007 (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.12.068)

Ireland RH, Barber DC. Constrained image reconstruction for magnetic detection electrical impedance tomography. International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology 17(6): 379-382, 2007 (DOI: 10.1002/ima.20103)

Ireland RH, Tozer JC, Barber DC and Barker AT. Towards magnetic detection electrical impedance tomography: data acquisition and image reconstruction of current density in phantoms and in vivo. Physiological Measurement, 25(3):775-796, 2004 (DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/25/3/016)

Ireland RH, Robinson RTR, Heller SR, Marques JLB and Harris ND. Measurement of high resolution ECG QT interval during controlled euglycaemia and hypoglycaemia. Physiological Measurement, 21(2):295-303, 2000 (DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/21/2/309)

Ireland RH, James HV, Wilson AJ and Howes M. Design of a summary screen for an intensive care unit patient data management system. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 35(4):397-401, 1997 (DOI: 10.1007/BF02534097)

Lee SP, Harris ND, Robinson RT, Davies C, Ireland R, Macdonald IA, Heller SR. Effect of atenolol on QTc interval lengthening during hypoglycaemia in type 1 diabetes. Diabetologia, 48(7):1269-72, 2005 (DOI: 10.1007/s00125-005-1796-1)

Murphy NP, Ford-Adams ME, Ong KK, Harris ND, Keane SM, Davies C, Ireland RH, McDonald IA, Knight EJ, Edge JA, Heller SR, Dunger DB. Prolonged cardiac repolarisation during spontaneous nocturnal hypoglycaemia in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Diabetologia, 47(11):1940-1947, 2004 (DOI: 10.1007/s00125-004-1552-y)

Robinson RTCE, Harris ND, Ireland RH, Macdonald IA, Heller SR. Changes in cardiac repolarization during clinical episodes of nocturnal hypoglycaemia in adults with Type 1 diabetes. Diabetologia, 47(2):312-315, 2004 (DOI: 10.1007/s00125-003-1292-4)

Robinson RTCE, Harris ND, Ireland RH, Newman C, Heller SR. Mechanisms of abnormal cardiac repolarization during insulin-induced hypoglycaemia. Diabetes, 52(6):1469-1474, 2003 (http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/full/52/6/1469)

Robinson RTCE, Harris ND, Ireland RH, Lindholm A, Heller SR. Comparative effect of human soluble insulin and insulin aspart upon hypoglycaemia-induced alterations in cardiac repolarisation. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 55(3):246-251, 2003 (DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2125.2003.01726.x)

Tozer JC, Ireland RH, Barber DC and Barker AT. Magnetic impedance tomography. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 873:353-359, 1999 (DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb09483.x)