Conference Presentations

The 68th Irish Gerontological Society (IGS) Annual Scientific Meeting 2021 – Online, 18th November 2021
Oral; 1st author. Co-author on 4 other presentations

Science Foundation Ireland Summit 2021 – Online, 4th – 5th November 2021
Posters X2; 1st and 2nd author

29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2021 – Online, 23rd – 27th August 2021
Oral; senior author. Poster; 2nd author

Entropy 2021: The Scientific Tool of the 21st Century – Online, 5th – 7th May 2021
Oral; 1st author

The 10th International Meeting: Cerebral Haemodynamic Regulation (CARNet) – Online, 22nd – 24th April 2021
Poster; 1st author
Awarded ‘Best Poster Presentation’ prize

Science Foundation Ireland Summit 2020 – Online, 5th – 6th November 2020
Oral; 1st author

European and International Congress on Obesity – Dublin, Ireland, 1st – 4th September 2020
Oral; 1st author

American Society of Nephrology: Kidney Week 2020 – Online, 27th – 28th October 2020
Oral X1; co-author

Alzheimer’s Association International Conference – Online, 27th – 31st July 2020
Oral X2; co-author

British and Irish Longitudinal Studies (BILS) conference – Manchester, UK, 3rd – 4th February 2020
Oral X2; 1st and co-author

FENS 2019: 13th European Nutrition Conference – Malnutrition in an Obese World: European Perspectives – Dublin, Ireland, 15th – 18th October 2019 
Oral presentation titled: ‘Central adiposity is associated with reduced cerebral perfusion: evidence from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)’ [1st author]
Oral presentation titled: ‘Relationship between body mass index and waist-hip ratio with resting-state cerebral oxygenation in an older population’ [Middle author]

International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region (IAGG-ER) Congress 2019 – Gothenburg, Sweden, 23rd – 25th May 2019 
Poster presentation titled: ‘Quantification of the Change in Cerebral Oxygenation during Orthostatic Challenge: Data from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing’ [1st author]
Poster presentation titled: ‘The Relationship between Preferred Walking Speed and Recovery of Cerebral Oxygenation upon Standing: Evidence from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing‘ [2nd author]

International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) annual scientific conference – Montréal, Canada, 11th – 16th May 2019
Digital poster presentation titled: ‘Optimal temporal resolution for accurate AIF measurement and error-constrained pharmacokinetic modelling of DCE data’  [1st author]
Digital poster presentation titled: ‘Accuracy and precision of DCE-MRI acquired with golden-angle radial k-space under-sampling’  [2nd author]

The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) Scientific Conference – Westport, Ireland, 2nd – 3rd May 2019
Oral presentation titled: ‘Central adiposity is associated with reduced cerebral perfusion’ [1st author]

Bioengineering in Ireland²⁵ – Limerick, Ireland, 18th – 19th January 2019
Oral presentation titled: ‘Principal component analysis for quantification of cerebral oxygenation change during orthostatic challenge in a large, aged Irish cohort’ [1st author]
Oral presentation titled: ‘Relationship between preferred walking speed and cerebral oxygenation when moving from supine to standing’ [2nd author]

The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM): 60th annual meeting and exhibition – Nashville, TN, USA, 29th July – 2nd August 2018
Oral presentation titled: ‘Quantification of the effects of golden-angle radial k-space under-sampling on DCE-MRI accuracy and precision’ [1st author]

ISMRM annual scientific conference – Paris, France, 16th – 21st June 2018
Traditional poster presentation titled: ‘Quantification of the absolute accuracy and precision of DCE-MRI measurements of the arterial input function’  [1st author]

Longitudinal Studies 2018 conference – Cambridge, England, 30th May – 1st June 2018
Oral presentation titled: ‘Memory performance and hippocampal subfield volume:
data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing’  [2nd author; presenting]

ISMRM annual scientific conference – Honolulu, Hawaii, 22nd – 27th April 2017
Traditional poster presentation titled: ‘Quantitative evaluation of the effect of temporal resolution and acquisition duration on the accuracy of DCE-MRI measurements in a prostate phantom’  [1st author]

Irish Association of Physicists in Medicine (IAPM) annual scientific conference – Dublin, Ireland, 25th March 2017
Oral presentation titled: ‘Effects of sampling frequency on the accuracy of phenomenological and pharmacokinetic parameters derived from dynamic contrast enhanced MRI data’  [1st author]

The Institute of Physics in Ireland spring meeting  – Dublin, Ireland, 11th March 2017
Poster presentation titled: ‘A novel phantom test device for the quantitative validation of prostate dynamic contrast enhanced MRI techniques’ [1st author]

Irish Association for Cancer Research (IACR) annual scientific conference – Kilkenny, Ireland, 23rd – 24th February 2017
Poster presentation titled: ‘Quantitative evaluation of the effects of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI acquisition parameters on the accuracy of derived prostate cancer biomarkers’  [1st author]

Bioengineering in Ireland²³ – Belfast, Northern Ireland, 20th – 21st January 2017
Oral presentation titled: ‘A novel anthropomorphic phantom test device for the validation and development of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI protocols’ [1st author]

The 10th International Cancer Conference – Dublin, Ireland, 17th – 18th October 2016
Poster presentation titled: ‘A novel anthropomorphic test device for the assessment of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI of prostate cancer’ [1st author]

European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB) annual scientific conference – Vienna, Austria, 29th September – 1st October 2016
Oral presentation titled: ‘Effect of temporal resolution and sampling duration on pharmacokinetic parameters derived from prostate DCE-MRI data: a quantitative phantom study’ [1st author]

Trinity College Dublin Faculty of Health Sciences Research Day – Dublin, Ireland, 15th September 2016
Poster presentation titled: ‘Error quantification in pharmacokinetic parameters derived from DCE-MRI data’ [1st author]
Awarded ‘Best Poster Presentation (Cancer)’ prize

ISMRM annual scientific conference – Singapore, 7th – 13th May 2016
Oral presentation titled: ‘A Novel Prostate DCE-MRI Flow Phantom for the Quantitative Evaluation of Pharmacokinetic Parameters’ [1st author]

IAPM annual scientific conference – Waterford, Ireland, 2nd April 2016
Oral and poster presentations titled: ‘Error quantification in pharmacokinetic parameters derived from DCE-MRI data using a novel anthropomorphic dynamic prostate phantom’ [1st author]
Awarded ‘Best Oral Presentation (Medical Imaging)’ prize

ESMRMB annual scientific conference – Edinburgh, Scotland, 1st – 3rd October 2015
Oral presentation titled: ‘A novel flow phantom for the quantitative evaluation of prostate DCE-MRI techniques’ [1st author]

IAPM annual scientific conference – Dublin, Ireland, 27th February 2015
Oral presentation titled: ‘A flow phantom for the quantitative validation of DCE-MRI techniques’ [1st author]
Poster presentation entitled: ‘Rapid prototyping: Offering new opportunities in phantom design and construction’ [1st author]

IAPM annual scientific conference – Dublin, Ireland, 22nd February 2014
Poster presentation titled: ‘A review of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI for the diagnosis of prostate cancer’ [1st author]