Essentials of In Vivo Biomedical Imaging

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Simon R. Cherry is a distinguished professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology as well as director of the Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging at the University of California Davis USA. He earned a Ph.D in medical physics from the Institute of Cancer Research London UK. Dr. Cherrys research interests include radiotracer imaging optical imaging and hybrid multimodality imaging systems focusing on the development of new technologies instrumentation and systems. Dr. Cherry has more than 25 years of experience in the field of biomedical imaging and has authored 200+ publications including the textbook Physics in Nuclear Medicine. He is a fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers the Biomedical Engineering Society and the Institute of Physics in Engineering and Medicine.Ramsey D. Badawi is an associate professor in the Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at the University of California Davis USA (UC Davis). He currently serves as chief of the Division of Nuclear Medicine and holds the molecular imaging endowed chair in the Department of Radiology. Dr. Badawi earned a bachelors degree in physics and a masters degree in astronomy from the University of Sussex UK. He earned a Ph.D in positron emission tomography (PET) physics from the University of London UK. Prior to joining UC Davis Dr. Badawi worked at St. Thomas Hospital London UK; the University of Washington Seattle USA; and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Massachusetts USA. His current research interests include PET and multimodality imaging instrumentation image processing and imaging in clinical trials.Jinyi Qi is a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California Davis USA (UC Davis). He earned a Ph.D in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California Los Angeles USA. Prior to joining the faculty of UC Davis he was a research scientist in the Department of Functional Imaging at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory California USA. Dr. Qi is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering a fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions of Medical Imaging. Dr. Qis research interests include statistical image reconstruction medical image processing image quality evaluation and imaging system optimization.