Richard Hichwa

Professor and Senior Associate Vice President for Research (also in Department of Radiology)

richard-hichwa@uiowa.edu

Education:

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981

Office:

201 GH

Office Phone:

(319) 335-2106

https://medicine.uiowa.edu/radiology/profile/richard-hichwa

Research Interests:

Medical physics.

Research:

Hardware development for nuclear detection systems, real-time control of a cyclotron, and high-power nuclear targets
Image analysis schemes, and physiological modeling of normal and disease tissues
Professor of Radiology and Adjunct Professor of Physics, is eligible to advise physics theses
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 have complete access to the machine shop, electronics laboratory and an extensive array of computing resources

Area:

Medical and Biomedical Physics Applications

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