Education

BA, Physics, Gustavus Adolphus College, 1990.
M.S., Physics, University of Iowa, 1992.
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997.

Honors

• Finalist, First Decade Award for early professional achievement, Gustavus Adolphus College, 2000
• Finalist, Computer and Instrumentation Young Investigators Competition, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Denver, CO, 1996
• Cray Research Fellowship, Cray Research Inc., 1996
• Finalist, Computer and Instrumentation Young Investigators Competition, 41st Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Orlando, FL, 1994
• U.S. Department of Education Graduate Fellowship, 1990-1992
• Honorary University of Iowa Alumni Association Scholarship, 1990
• Honorable Mention, NSF Fellowship for Graduate Study in Physics, 1990
• Gustavus Adolphus College Partners in Scholarship, 1986-1990
• Borneman Scholarship for Excellence, Gustavus Adolphus College, 1989
• Julian Crawford Scholarship, Gustavus Adolphus College, 1988

Research Interests

• Functional imaging with positron emission tomography (PET), especially advanced technologies for:
• Multi-tracer PET tumor imaging to characterize multiple aspects of tumor physiology, e.g. glucose metabolism + blood flow + hypoxia + growth
• Multi-modality PET/CT and PET/MRI imaging, where high resolution anatomic imaging is coupled with functional PET to improve the resolution, quantitation, and descriptive value of the functional imaging information
• Statistical fully-3D tomographic image reconstruction algoriths with advanced physics and statistical modeling

Publications (downloadable)

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