Dr Russell Horney

Lecturer
Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences

Email: Russell.Horney@monash.edu

BSc (Hons) (Monash), PhD (Monash), MAIP, MIEAust, GradCertHigherEd.

Russell graduated in physics from Monash University in 1974 studying defects in natural topaz by X-ray topography before moving to the UK to study the temperature dependence of thermal vibrational amplitudes in face-centred cubic metals by thermal neutron scattering at the University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland and the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK.

In 1979, Russell turned to mechanical engineering involving large fans and compressors with Parsons Turbine Generators in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; high pressure gas release testing with British Gas Corporation in Cumbria, UK; and surface coatings research with Advanced Surface Engineering Technologies, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic. Returning to Melbourne in 1988, Russell was involved, for nine years, with hydrocarbon equipment engineering and also taught mechanical engineering at Swinburne University, TAFE Division, and physics at Chisholm Institute of TAFE and Monash University.

Russell commenced work for his PhD in physics at Monash in 2001 in the field of x-ray computed tomography and digital imaging, graduating with the degree in 2005. He became a lecturer in the Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences in the same year. His field of research relates to the use of X-ray computed tomography for precision dimensional measurements in both industrial and medical applications. Russell teaches radiologic physics with particular interests in computed tomography and medical ultrasound imaging.