Elliott, Helen https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6332-1029
Allen, A. Joy https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3222-0396
Forester, Nerys D. https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8343-4682
Graziadio, Sara https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6288-9202
Jones, W. S. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9352-3916
Lendrem, Beverley Clare https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9435-7398
Pearce, Mark S.
Powell, Timothy https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3776-4393
Scott, Jason https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7031-2171
Bray, Alison https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1402-804X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Innovate UK (104296, 104296, 104296, 104296, 104296, 104296, 104296, 104296, 104296)
Article History
Received: 22 May 2024
Revised: 25 November 2024
Accepted: 4 December 2024
First Online: 18 December 2024
Competing interests
: This work was funded by an Innovate UK grant awarded to Newcastle University and Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, in collaboration with a radiation detection company, Kromek, The work, undertaken by Newcastle University and Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, was conducted independently from Kromek.
: Ethical approval for the study was granted by Yorkshire & The Humber - South Yorkshire Research Ethics Committee, reference 19/YH/0290 in October 2019 and all methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. All participants provided informed consent to take part in this study. The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Explicit consent was obtained from all participants to publish anonymous quotes.