John Sunderland, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, PET Imaging Center
Biography
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
Research areas
- Medical and Biomedical Physics
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