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| Professor Ken Lau |
Head of Thoracic Imaging and the CT Unit at Monash Health,
Kenneth Lau has been promoted to Clinical Professor.
With responsibility for the Monash Health CT unit, Professor
Lau oversees the most advanced CT hardware and software in the field, enabling
new scanning techniques and clinical applications.
Professor Lau has particular interests in all new and
advanced CT and dose reduction techniques.
He has been involved in many research studies and projects, including
the use of wide area detector in 4-dimensional
assessment of upper and middle airways; model-based and knowledge-based
iterative reconstruction in radiation dose reduction and image quality
improvement; fine focal spot CT scanning; use of liver detection algorithm in
enhancing low subject contrast detectability;
ECG-gated chest imaging; vascular calcifications in chronic kidney
disease; and dual energy investigation of renal calculi in Thalassemia.
“In
close collaboration with Professor Phil Bardin, Director of Respiratory and
Sleep Medicine at Monash Health, our use of 4-dimensional CT in diagnosing,
evaluating and monitoring laryngeal dyskinesia and expiratory functional
disorders has been ground-breaking, and Monash Health is the world-leading site
in this clinical area,” said Professor Lau.
“Professor
Bardin and I have also been working closely with Imperial College London in
developing an aerodynamic model of airway from the CT data set.”
Professor
Lau has been an invited speaker at local, national and international meetings
and conferences on 35 occasions. He has
authored 57 peer-reviewed publications and presented 92 posters and 28 oral
proffered scientific papers in local, national and internal conferences.
His 11
prestigious awards and prizes include the Toshiba prize for the outstanding
scientific exhibits at RANZCR ASM in 2005, 2009 and 2013, the Wiley-Blackwell
best exhibit award in 2012, 2013 and 2015, the Philips prize at RANZCR ASM in
2011 for the best European abstract, and the best scientific paper presentation
in the joint Royal college of Radiologists and Hong Kong college of
Radiologists in 2011.
Beyond
his research and clinical work, Professor Lau lectures radiography students at
Monash University, prepares chest imaging tutorials for medical students, and
has successfully supervised four Masters students.
“I am
very thankful to Monash Health and the Diagnostic Imaging Department for
supporting my role, and at the same time I am appreciative of the excellent
skill set and dedication of my radiology colleagues and the medical imaging
technologists to make the CT unit one of the best in the world.”
Professor
Lau also thanks Head, Department of Imaging at Monash Health and Monash
University, Professor Stephen Stuckey for his ongoing
guidance, support and encouragement and Head, Department of Surgery, Professor Julian
Smith for his support in his academic promotion application.
