John J. Sunderland is Professor of Radiology in the Division of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Iowa, and has a secondary appointment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He is also Director of the PET Imaging Center and is a Professor of Radiation Oncology. His research interests include medical physics.

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