John J. Sunderland
Associate Professor and Director of PET Imaging (also in Department of Radiology)
Education:
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990
Office:
3881 JPP
Office Phone:
(319) 356-1092
Research Interests:
Medical physics.
Research:
- Radiation Detector Development for Positron Emission Tomography Applications
- Nuclear spectroscopy applications in medical physics
- Image analysis algorithm development including physiological modeling of radiopharmaceutical kinetics in both human and animal models
- Associate Professor of Radiology and Adjunct Professor of Physics, is eligible to advise physics theses
- PET Facilities include a medical cyclotron, three hybrid PET/CT scanners, one research PET scanner
- Students have opportunities to interact with a multidisciplinary group of scientists including radiochemists, engineers, physiologists, physicians and physicists
- Students learn how to operate the cyclotron and PET imaging instruments and software for image processing and simulation