Elly Castellano

Elly was educated in physics and medical physics at the universities of Oxford, Surrey, and London. She trained at St Mary’s Hospital, London, in nuclear medicine, radiotherapy, and diagnostic radiology physics, and thereafter specialized in the latter. She is a registered clinical scientist, chartered scientist and chartered radiation protection professional. She leads a team of medical physicists which provides diagnostic radiology physics services to The Royal Marsden and the Royal Brompton amongst others.

In addition to her clinical work, Elly is active in research with over 20 publications to date. Her main research interests are in CT dosimetry and CT optimization. She runs the advanced x-ray and CT imaging module of the MSc Clinical Sciences (Medical Physics) at King’s College, London, and lectures extensively in the UK and abroad. She is a contributing author to several textbooks and handbooks on CT and patient radiation dosimetry.