Helen Carty obituary
When Helen Carty was appointed in 1975 as a specialist in paediatric radiology at the Royal Liverpool Children's hospital in Alder Hey, Merseyside, x-rays were just about the only tool available to diagnose many disorders in children. Helen, who has died aged 72, set about changing all that. She became a driving force in developing the full range of imaging technology, ultrasound, nuclear medicine and CT and MRI scanning that is now in use with children, and an important expert witness in cases of child abuse.
Paediatric radiology, as with much of paediatrics, is about adapting what is known in adult practice. Helen had the vision to see how technology could be used and was especially forceful in making the case for such technology to be made as easily available for young patients as for adults. Thanks in part to her efforts, Alder Hey raised money to provide a CT scanner for children, and in 1995 to install one of the first dedicated MRI scanners for children in the UK.
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