Medical Imaging Track

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Medical Imaging Track
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Mission

• The medical imaging track prepares interested
  students for a career in the field of modern
  medical imaging. Introductory and advanced
  courses in various aspects of medical imaging are
  offered.

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Faculty

• Stephen Pizer, Ph.D.
• Head of MIDAG
• Imaging analysis, display, and shape
• Henry Fuchs, Ph.D.
• Medical augmented reality research
• Marija Ivanovic, Ph.D.
• Nuclear medicine related research
• Stephen Knisley, Ph.D.
• optical imaging
• Weili Lin, Ph.D.
• MR imaging research
• Jeffery MacDonald, Ph.D.
• MRS research

• Etta Pisano, M.D.
• Digital Mammography
• Wesley Snyder, Ph.D.
• Digital signal processing
• Hamid Krim, Ph.D.
• Digital signal processing
• David Lalush, Ph.D.
• Reconstruction methods and bioinformatics
• Mehmet Ozturk, Ph.D.
• Sarah Rajala, Ph.D.
• Digital signal processing

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Faculty

• Emission Computer Tomography
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Digital Mammography
• Optical Imaging

• Digital Signal Processing
• Reconstruction Methods
• Imaging Analysis and Display

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Collaborative Projects

• Small-animal Dynamic CT System (O. Zhou, J. Lu
  (UNC Physics), Lin, Lalush)
• Diffraction-Enhanced X-ray and CT (Pisano, D.
  Sayers (NCSU Physics), Lalush, Bourham (NCSU
  Nuclear Eng.))
• Optical CT Development (Lin, Knisley, Lalush)
• Molecular Imaging of Engineered Tissues (Lalush,
  Loboa)
• Vascular attributes using MRI (Bullitt, Van Dyke
  and Lin)
• Neonate imaging using MRI (Gilmore, Gerig, Lin)

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Students

• Joint Program (3)
• UNC (7)

• New students for Fall 2004 (4)

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Students

• UNC Students still in program, but supervised by
  Tsui or Frey (6)
• Taek-Soo Lee Ph.D. (Tsui)
• Xin He Ph.D. (Frey)
• Sunita Sayeram Ph.D. (Tsui)
• Stacia Sawyer Ph.D. (Frey)
• Jerry Zhu Ph.D. (Tsui)
• Joni Keller Ph.D. (Frey)

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Projects

• Chris Parham Characterization of Breast Cancer
  using Diffraction-Enhanced X-ray Imaging
• Bryan Yoder in vivo Molecular Imaging using
  MicroSPECT and Optical Techniques
• Yueh Z Lee Quantitative measurements of cerebral
  oxygen extraction fraction using MRI (defended in
  June, 2004)

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Courses(Masters and Ph.D.)
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Courses(Electives for Ph.D.)
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Imaging Devices

• Human Imaging
• Radiology
• MR, CT, PET, SPECT, and US
• A 3T MR system is dedicated for research
• Radiation oncology
• CT
• In vivo animal imaging
• Micro-SPECT Ben Tsui
• Micro-CT Otto Zhou
• 3T MR scanner Weili Lin
• High resolution US Cam Patterson
• In vivo optical imaging Weili Lin

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Imaging Devices

• Ex vivo imaging
• Confocal microscopy
• Light microscopy
• Scanning electron microscopy
• Transmitted electron microscopy
• Atomic force microscopy

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Future Imaging Devices

• 9.4T MR scanner for small animal imaging
• Micro-PET system for small animal imaging

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Faculty Recruitment

• Search Committee chaired by David Lalush
• Interview four potential candidates
• Narrow down to two candidates
• Optical imaging
• Ultrasound imaging
• Currently negotiating with Siavash Yazdanfar

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Biomedical Research Imaging Center

• A center formed focusing on establishing imaging
  research Etta Pisano, M.D., Center Director
• From cell imaging to human imaging
• Establishing infrastructure for imaging research
• Establishing resources for imaging research
• 12 new faculty and 18 FTE in the next five years.