Bal Sanghera PhD, MSc

Bal Sanghera received a Ph.D. degree in medical physics imaging from the Institute of Cancer Research combined with Imperial College. He was involved in the physics locum and held postdoctoral positions at Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College in imaging, robotics, and biomechanics. He is currently a PET-CT Physicist, a State Registered Clinical Scientist, and a Medical Physics Expert with the Paul Strickland Scanner Centre, Mount Vernon Hospital, London. He is also a Medical Physics Examiner with the Royal College of Radiology. His typical routine as a medical physicist was duties with strong research commitments. He supervised M.Sc. and Ph.D. students and the current one is involved with textural analysis in PET-CT and MRI of the prostate.

He is also supervising a Ph.D. student at Birmingham University in PET-CT in head and neck cancer. He currently has 36 peer-reviewed accepted publications to date. He is currently publishing a national PET dose calibrator study looking at device differences in 13 PET-CT centers using a Ge-68 sealed source syringe as a surrogate for F-18., He was a Trustee of the Institute of Physics and Engineering (IPEM), IPEM Honorary Secretary, and a member of the Business and Finance and Committee. He is also an Inaugural Chief Scientific Officer’s Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate with NHS England heading a PET-CT harmonization national study using a Ge-68 NEMA image quality phantom.