Research Staff: Mrs Gail Durbridge

RADIOGRAPHER

Address:
Centre for Magnetic Resonance
Level 2, Gehrmann Laboratories
Research Road
The University of Queensland
Brisbane. Qld. 4072
E-mail address: Gail Durbridge
Telephone: +61-7-3365 1785
Fax: +61-7-3365 3833
Home Page: Gail Durbridge

Career Profile:
Dip App Sci (with distinction) Medical Radiography, RMIT, Melbourne
Grad Dip Ultrasound
MSc
MIR

Mrs Durbridge is a senior research Radiographer, with significant clinical experience. She has a particular interest in musculoskeletal (MSK) imaging. She trained in MRI at The Wesley Hospital, and did her undergraduate radiography and post graduate ultrasound training at RMIT in Melbourne. Gail is accredited as both an MRI radiographer and a sonographer. She is undertaking research for her PhD entitled “A longitudinal study of the knee extensor mechanism in elite footballers” with the University of Queensland. Other recent research projects include imaging of neonatal brains in premature infants, imaging of scoliosis patients with and without load simulating an erect posture, imaging of the sciatic nerve in the thigh, imaging of the cervical spine extensor musculature and various fMRI projects.

Mrs Durbridge has a key role in the authoring and delivery of the MRT teaching programs. She is course coordinator and tutors in seven subjects, including the Postgraduate Diploma and Masters research projects.

Key publications:

• Elliott, J.M., Jull, G.A., Noteboom, J.T., Durbridge, G.L. and Gibbon, W.W. (2007). A magnetic resonance imaging study of cross-sectional area of the cervical extensor musculature in an asymptomatic cohort. Clinical Anatomy Accepted for publication.
• Fuentes, M.A., Keith, C.J., Griffiths, M., Durbridge, G., Miles, K.A. (2002). Hepatic haemodynamics: interrelationships between contrast enhancement and perfusion on CT and Doppler perfusion indices. British Journal of Radiology 75(889): 17 -23
• Durbridge, G.L., Elliott, J.M., Jull, G.A., Noteboom, J.T. and Gibbon, W.W. (2005). ). A magnetic resonance imaging study of cross-sectional area of the cervical extensor musculature in an asymptomatic cohort. Poster Presentation, Annual Meeting of European Society Musculoskeletal Radiology, June 2006
• Bendall, E.M., McMahon, K.L., Eastburn, M.M., Eadie, K., Durbridge, G.L., Strudwick, M.W., Cowin, G.J., deZubicaracy, G.I. and Catts, SV (2006). Anterior temporal cortex activation during generation of novel category associates in Schizophrenia. Poster Presentation Human Brain Mapping, Italy June.
• Bendall, E.M., McMahon, K.L., Eastburn, M.M., Eadie, K., Durbridge, G.L., Strudwick, M.W., Cowin, G.J., deZubicaracy, G.I. and Catts, SV (2006). Normal and anomalous classification of category exemplars in schizophrenia. Australasian Schizophrenia Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia (21-23 August 2006). Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 40(Suppl 2): A127
• Bendall, E.M., McMahon, K.L., Eastburn, M.M., Eadie, K., Durbridge, G.L., Strudwick, M.W., Cowin, G.J., deZubicaracy, G.I. and Catts, SV (2006). Abnormal access to semantic representations during category generation in schizophrenia. The fMRI Experience 8, Melbourne, Australia (27-30 June 2006).