Hi I am Alf Linney!
 

If you want to write to me, here is the address:

Department of Medical Physics & Bioengineering,
1st. Floor Shropshire House,
11-20, Capper Street,
London, WC1E 6JA

You can also contact me by 'phone, fax or e-mail:

Tel: 020 7679 6427
Fax: 020 7679 6269
e-mail: alf@medphys.ucl.ac.uk

Research Interests:

Three dimensional Medical Graphics and Surgical Simulation, Facial measurement and analysis, Facial identification from images, Image Guided Surgery, Augmented reality in Surgery, Sci-Art projects and Forensic facial identification.

Teaching Interests:

I teach courses on medical statistics, image analysis and processing, principles of radiotherapy planning and radiological imaging.

Other Interests:
 

Among my other interests is sculpture. I exhibit on average three times a year.  I now have a number of grants to carry out art and sci-art projects. Here is an example of my main sculpture style. I also do portraits and work in wood, stone and metal.

Recent Publications:

Validation of computer-assisted manufacture of titanium plates for cranioplasty. Jack M. Joffe, Susan R. Nicoll, Robin Richards, Alf D. Linney, Malcolm Harris. Int. J.  Oral Maxillofac. Surg. 1999; 28: 309-313.

Three-dimensional morphometry in ultrasound.  Linney AD and Deng J.Proc Instn Mech Engrs Vol. 213 Part H (1999) 235-245.

Clinical Applications of Computer Aided Visualization. Linney AD and Alusi GH. Journal of Visualization. Vol.1, No. 1 (1998) 95-109.

Computer Modelling of Facial Form (with AM Coombes). Chapter 15 in Craniofacial Identification in Forensic Medicine. Eds. Clement and Ranson, Edward Arnold, London. ISBN No. 0 340 60789 9. 1998.

Tele-education: the virtual medical laboratory. Alusi GH, Tan AC, Campos JC, Linney A,  Wright A  J. Telemed. Telecare,. 1997; 3 Suppl 1: 79-81

Techniques in the Registration of 3-D Head Surfaces(with WR Fright),  Chapter 3, pp147-179, In  Series In Engineering, Technology and Applied Science: Medical Imaging Technique and Applications (Ed. CT Leondes), Publ. Gordon and Breach, 1997.

3-D Representation and Visualization of the human face and applications to surgery, morphology, anthropometrics and forensic science, pp 213-237(with Patricia M. Goodwin) Contemporary Perspectives In Three-dimensional Biomedical Imaging. C. Roux and J-L Coatrieux (eds). IOS Press, 1997.

Non-contact Anthropometry Using Projected Laser Line Distortion: Three Dimensional Graphic Visualisation and Applications Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 1997, 28(2): 137-155 (co-authors: Campos J and Richards R)

Three-dimensional analysis techniques--Part 4: Three-dimensional analysis of bone and soft tissue to bone ratio of movements in 24 cleft palate patients following Le Fort I osteotomy: a preliminary report. Cleft-Palate-Craniofac-J. 1997 Jan; 34(1): 58-62 (co-authors: McCance AM, Moss JP, Fright WR,  James-DR, Coghlan K, Mars M)

Three-dimensional analysis techniques--Part 3: Color-coded system for three-dimensional measurement of bone and ratio of soft tissue to bone: the analysis. Cleft-Palate-Craniofac-J. 1997 Jan; 34(1): 52-7 (co-authors: McCance AM, Moss JP, Fright WR).

Three-dimensional analysis techniques--Part 2: Laser scanning: a quantitative three-dimensional soft-tissue analysis using a color-coding system. Cleft-Palate-Craniofac-J. 1997 Jan; 34(1): 46-51 (co-authors: McCance AM, Moss-JP, Fright-WR,  James-DR).

Three-dimensional analysis techniques--Part 1: Three-dimensional soft-tissue analysis of 24 adult cleft palate patients following Le Fort I maxillary advancement: a preliminary report. Cleft-Palate-Craniofac-J. 1997 Jan; 34(1): 36-45 (co-authors: McCance AM, Moss-JP, Fright-WR, Linney-AD, James-DR).

Three Dimensional Tracking with Ultrasound for Augmented Reality Applications in Skull Base Surgery. G. Alusi, A.C. Tan, A. D. Linney, K. Raoof, A. Wright Proceedings of CVRMed-MRCAS'97 (Eds. Jocelyne Troccaz Eric Grimson Ralph Mijsges ) Publ. Springer, Berlin, 1997 (ISSN 0302-9743), pp 511-517. Alusi G, Tan AC, Raoof K and Wright A)

A comparative study of two arbitrary face-bow transfer systems for orthognathic surgery planning. Int. J. Oral Surg. 1996: 25: 339-343. (co-authors: Bamber MA, Firouzai R, Harris)

Using Curvature Information in Shape Analysis. Proceedings in Image Fusion and Shape Variability Techniques (Eds. KV Mardia, CA Gill and IL Dryden). Leeds University Press. 1996, pp.88-99. (ISBN 0 85316 173 9). (co-authors: Kent JT, Lee D,  Mardia KV)

On statistical problems with face identification from photographs. J. Applied Statistics, vol. 23, 1996, 655-675. (co-authors: Mardia KV, Coombes A, Cartwright J, Bowie JL)

The use of three dimensional (3D) techniques in the monitoring of the growth of facial anomalies. Opus Honorarium, Benito Miotti, Edizioni Liberia Progretto Padova, 1996, pp 205-214. (co-authors: Moss JP, Goodwin PM)

Computer Simulation and Planning in Maxillo-Facial and Cranial Surgery. J. Comput. Aided Surg. 1995; 1(2): 46-53. (co-author: Richards R)

The Use of Three-Dimensional Techniques in Facial Esthetics. Seminars in Orthodontics, Vol. 1, No.2 (June), 1995: pp 94-104. (co-authors: Moss JP, Lowey MN)