The winners of the 2014 Photography in Medical Physics (PiMP) competition were announced at the Combined Scientific Meeting (CSM) in Melbourne on Sunday, 7 September 2014. The winners in the three thematic categories, as selected by our esteemed panel of judges, are:
Category: Professionals at work
1st place – Duncan Butler “Alignment”
2nd place – Ben Keir “Phantom Physicists”
Equal 3rd place – Jacqueline Foo “Let’s get to the point”
Equal 3rd place – Duncan Butler “Synchrotron beam pipe”
Category: Marco – Get up close and personal with Medical Physics
1st place – Katrina Biggerstaff “Electron gun”
Equal 2nd place – Anita Adhitya “Ferrofluid”
Equal 2nd place – Anita Adhitya “Ferrofluid 3”
Equal 2nd place – Duncan Butler “Aperture”
Equal 2nd place – Duncan Butler “Graphite Chamber”
Category: Other exciting aspects of Medical Physics
1st place – Duncan Butler “Working late”
2nd place – Chris Lee “Daily Laser QA”
Equal 3rd place – Frank Gagliardi “3D microbeams colour”
Equal 3rd place – Frank Gagliardi “Interlaced microbeams”
Equal 3rd place – Paul White “Jelly baby 2014”
The People’s Choice aka “Public PiMP” Award, as selected by the members of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists & Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) in an online vote, goes to
Ben Keir “Phantom Physicists”
Second in the People’s Choice voting came
David Jolly “Through the ages 2”
Followed in third place by
Peta Lonski “Teaching”
Thanks to everybody for entering; it was a great effort and many people enjoyed viewing the images at the CSM in Melbourne.
Thank you to the ACPSEM leadership, namely ACPSEM President Dr. Sean Geoghegan, General Manager Geoff Barbaro and Education Officer Yuri Chernenko for their support!
We would also like to thank Radiation Oncology Support Australia (ROSA) again for supporting PiMP 2014 and enabling us to provide nice trophies to the winners.
Cheers
Joerg Lehmann (PiMP Master) and May Whitaker (PiMP Mistress)