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The DMIP seminars

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DMIP Seminar Guidelines can be found here. The default time and location are Thursday 2-3pm in JHOC 6150.
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Date and Location	Speaker (guest speakers shown in blue)	Title and Abstract
	Round 2008-2009 begins
11/20	No seminar – IEEE BioCAS
11/27	No seminar – Thanksgiving
12/4/2008	No seminar – RSNA
12/5	Anthony Butler, Ph.D. Medipix research group	On photon counting x-ray detector project
12/11	Katsuyuki (Ken) Taguchi, Ph.D. DMIP
12/18	Bin He, Ph.D. DMIP
12/25	No seminar – Christmas
1/1/2009	No seminar – New Year’s Day
1/8	No seminar – SNM deadline
1/15	Eric C. Frey, Ph.D. DMIP
1/22	Yong Du, Ph.D. DMIP
1/29	Jian Hua Yu, B.S. DMIP Si Chen, M.S. DMIP
2/5/2009	No seminar – SPIE MI practices
2/12	No seminar – SPIE MI
	Guest speaker
	Xin He, Ph.D. DMIP
	George Fung, Ph.D. DMIP
	Guest speaker
	Seng Peng (Greta) Mok, B.S. DMIP Xiaolan Wang, B.S. DMIP
	Emad M. Boctor, Ph.D. DMIP
	Mahadevappa Mahesh, M.S., Ph.D. DMIP
	Guest speaker
	Jing Tang, Ph.D. DMIP
	Jingyan Xu, Ph.D. DMIP
	Susanne Bonekamp, D.V.M., Ph.D. DMIP
	Guest speaker
	Na Song, M.Sc. DMIP Alia Khaled, M.S. DMIP
	Taek-Soo Lee, B.S. DMIP
	Benjamin M. W. Tsui, Ph.D. DMIP
June - August	No seminar – Summer break

Past seminars

Date and Location	Speaker	Title
11/13	Taek-Soo Lee, B.S. DMIP; and Na Song, M.Sc. DMIP	“Task-Based Evaluation of 3D & 4D Image Reconstruction Methods for Gated SPECT : Final Results” “The Effect of Registration with Independent Rigid Organ Motion on Organ Activity Estimates”
11/6/2008	Susanne Bonekamp, D.V.M., Ph.D. DMIP	“The Heart- Basic Introduction to Cardiac Anatomy and Physiology”
10/1/2008	Jochen Cammin, Ph.D. Univ of Rochester / Fermilab (Chicago, IL) (interview)	“Physics from Top to Bottom – Measuring the top quark mass and the b jet energy scale”
9/25/2008	Si Chen, M.Sc. DMIP; and Jian Hua Yu, B.S. DMIP	“An Insight into Respiratory Motion Compensation in ECT Imaging—Problem, Progress, and Path” “(Part 1) High Resolution CT Imaging for a Monky Cochlear; and (Part 2) PET and CT Imaging for the Contused Rat Spinal Cord”
9/18/2008	Ching-Ching Yang, B.S. DMIP and National Yang-Ming Univ (Taiwan)	“Investigation of effects of Fourier Rebinning algorithm on quantitative accuracy of small animal PET imaging”
9/15/2008	Ji Chen, Ph.D. Radiology, Emory University	“Measuring left ventricular dyssynchrony by phase analysis of ECG-gated myocardial perfusion imaging”
9/3/2008	Kin Chung Fong, M.S. Ohio State University (interview)	“Nanoscale Imaging by Spin Noise”
9/2/2008	Katharine Helen Fraser, Ph.D. University of Edinburgh (interview)
8/5/2008	Professor Shanglian Bao Beijing City Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Engineering at Peking Univ.	“Overview of Medica Physics Research at Peking University (Beijing, China)”
6/24/2008	Firas Mourtada, M.S.E., Ph.D., D.ABR Radiation Physics Dept., MD Anderson Cancer Center	“Deterministic Radiation Transport Method for External beam and Radionuclide Radiotherapy”
6/5/2008	Arkadiusz Sitek, Ph.D. Brigham and Woman's Hospital / Harvard University	“High speed computing: GPU tutorial”
6/4/2008	Arkadiusz Sitek, Ph.D. Brigham and Woman's Hospital / Harvard University	“Visual Computing: Future of Medical Imaging ?”
5/29/2008	Xiaolan Wang, B.S. DMIP	“Photon-counting X-ray Detector with Energy Discrimination Capability and A Detector Non-uniformity Compensation Approach”
5/16/2008 10:30am@CSMC306	Ting-Yin Lee, Ph.D. Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Medical Biophysics, UWO
5/1/2008	Emad M. Boctor, Ph.D. DMIP	"Ultrasound Research Overview"
4/17/2008 10am @ CSMC306	Ashvin Kurian George, Ph.D., NIH	"Time-resolved Dynamic Cardiac CT Reconstruction Using the Ensemble Kalman Filter"
4/10/2008	Chia-Lin Chen, B.S. DMIP and National Yang-Ming Univ (Taiwan)	"Towards Quantitative Small Animal Pinhole SPECT Imaging"
4/3/2008	Jingyan Xu, Ph.D. DMIP	"Resolution compensation in iterative x-ray CT reconstruction"
3/27/2008	Yuchuan Wang, Ph.D. DMIP	"Perspectives on Multi-Pinhole SPECT Imaging"
3/20/2008	Seng Peng (Greta) Mok, B.S. DMIP	"Design and development of a multi-pinhole collimator for high-resolution and high-efficiency SPECT imaging of atherosclerotic plaques in ApoE-/- mice"
2/14/2008	Thomas J. Beck, D.Sc. DMIP	"Why it is difficult to detect exercise effects on bone using DXA scanners"
2/7/2008	Eric C. Frey, Ph.D. DMIP	"Quantitative Nuclear Medicine Imaging for Targeted Radiotherapy Treatment Planning"
1/24/2008	Yong Du, Ph.D. DMIP	"Quantitative reconstruction using combined voxel and volume-of-interest representation"
1/17/2008	Ken Taguchi, Ph.D. DMIP	"Cardiac computed tomography with a large cone-angle" We will discuss a  project that has not even started yet. Any questions and discussion would be helpful to improve the quality of an R21 proposal-in-progress.
1/10/2008	Xin He, Ph.D. DMIP	"Toward Ideal Observer (IO) Estimation for the Optimization of Medical Imaging Systems – Development and Validation of an IO Estimation Method for a Realistic SPECT Imaging Simulator and a Torso Phantom"
12/6/2007	Scott D. Metzler, Ph.D. Radiology, University of Pennsylvania	"Slit-Slat Collimation: Initial Studies"
11/15/2007	Chi Liu, B.S. DMIP	"Collimator Design for Rotating Slant Hole SPECT"
10/11/2007	Benjamin M. W. Tsui, Ph.D. DMIP	"Simulation tools and their applications to SPECT/CT and PET/CT"
10/4/2007	Mahadevappa Mahesh, M.S., Ph.D. DMIP	"Magnitude of Medical Radiation Exposures to US population"
9/27/2007	Jing Tang, Ph.D. DMIP	"Detecting Cardiac Motion Defects from Simulated 4D Gated SPECT Images" The purpose of this study is to compare the ability of a previously developed 3D cardiac motion estimation (ME) technique in detecting regional motion defect in gated myocardial perfusion (GMP) SPECT images obtained using a 4D MAP-RBI-EM and a 3D OS-EM with a 4D post-filtering algorithm.
9/20/2007	Bin He, Ph.D. DMIP	"Quantitative SPECT Imaging Methods on Tumor Activity Quantification:  A Monte Carlo Simulation Study"
	Round 2007-2008
9/12,14/2007	Alexander Katsevich, Ph.D. University of Central Florida	Analytical cone-beam reconstruction algorithms
9/13/2007	Alexander Katsevich, Ph.D. University of Central Florida	"Reconstruction algorithms for two general classes of curves"
6/11/2007	Freek Beekman, Ph.D. University Medical Centre Utrecht	"Ultra-High Resolution Focusing Pinhole SPECT Providing Movies of Drugs and Organs in Action"
6/8/2007	James Bading, PhD Research Scientist Division of Cancer Immunotherapeutics & Tumor Immunology City of Hope National Medical Center Duarte, CA	"Quantitative Tumor Imaging in Radioimmunotherapy"
6/7/2007	Brian F. Hutton, Ph.D. Univ of College London Hospitals NHS Trust	"Current Medical Imaging Physics Research at the University College London"
5/17/2007	Taek-Soo Lee, B.S. DMIP	"The Development and Application of Simultaneous Cardiac and Respiratory Gated ECT/CT Dataset from the 4D NCAT Phantom"
5/11/2007	Jeffrey A. Fessler, Ph.D. University of Michigan	Lecture on statistical reconstruction
5/10/2007	Jeffrey A. Fessler, Ph.D. University of Michigan	"Statistical reconstruction for PET with motion compensation"
4/19/2007	Jian Hua Yu, B.S. DMIP	"CT-based Attenuation Correction and Curve-fitting Scatter Correction for GE VISTA small-animal PET system"
4/12/2007	Keng Fai (Alex) Kwok, B.S. DMIP	"Physical phantom evaluation of SPECT quantitation"
4/5/2007	Na Song, M.Sc. DMIP	"Multi-modality registration for cumulated activity distribution estimation by mutual information"
3/29/2007	Xiaolan Wang, B.S. DMIP	"Basis material decomposition in X-ray imaging using energy-discriminating photon-counting detector"
3/22/2007	Jingyan Xu, Ph.D. DMIP	"Iterative Image reconstruction for X-ray CT"
3/15/2007	Chi Liu, B.S. DMIP	"Breast and Cardiac SPECT using Rotating Slant Hole Collimator"
3/8/2007	Eric Frey, Ph.D., and Ken Taguchi, Ph.D. DMIP	Review of two SPIE presentations on photon counting detectors: "Image-domain material decomposition using photon-counting CT," "Microcomputed tomography with a photon-counting X-ray detector"
3/1/2007	Russell H. Taylor, Ph.D. JHU Computer Science	"Computer-Integrated Interventional Medicine"
2/15/2007	Xin He and Jingyan Xu	SPIE practice (15 min talk + 15 min discussion for each presentation)
2/9/2007	Charles Metz, Ph.D. University of Chicago	"The 'Proper' Binormal Model for ROC Curve Fitting"
2/2/2007 (Fri)	Bing Bai, Ph.D.	"3D Model Based Image Reconstruction for microPET scanners and Speedup Methods"
1/25/2007	Si Chen, M.Sc. DMIP	"Image Based Compensation for Attenuation Map Misalignment in Respiratory-gated SPECT with 3D CT"
1/18/2007	Thomas Beck, Sc.D. DMIP	"Controversies and Challenges in the Non-invasive Measurement of Bone Strength: The Argument for DXA
1/11/2007	David Graff, Ph.D. DMIP	"Truncation in multipinhole SPECT"
1/4/2007	Susanne Hemker, V.D.M., Ph.D. DMIP	”The Look AHEAD Fatty Liver Study - Fatty Liver Disease In Overweight Adults with Type 2 Diabetes”
12/14/2006	Yuchuan Wang, Ph.D. DMIP	"Topics on Multi-Pinhole SPECT Imaging"
12/7/2006	Bin He, Ph.D. DMIP	"The Effects of Mis-registration and mis-definition of VOIs on Organ Activity Estimations"
11/30/2006	Katsuyuki (Ken) Taguchi, Ph.D.; DMIP	"Toward time-resolved 4D cardiac CT imaging with patient dose reduction"
11/16/2006	Jing Tang, Ph.D. DMIP	"Cardiac Motion Estimation from Gated Emission Computed Tomography Images"
11/9/2006	Guest speaker	Matlab seminar
11/6/2006	Hideaki Haneishi, Ph.D. Chiba University (Japan)	"Motion correction of respiratory-gated PET/SPECT images" We have proposed a motion correction technique of respiratory-gated lung and liver PET/SPECT images. A few beneficial aspects of the motion information obtained by the method are introduced.
10/26/2006	Seng Peng (Greta) Mok, Xin He, Ph.D., Yuchuan Wang, Ph.D.	MIC practice "Quantification of the Multiplexing Effect in Multi-Pinhole Small Animal SPECT" "Investigation of Optimal Tc-99m Injected Activity in Dual-isotope Myocardial Perfusion SPECT Imaging using 3-class ROC Analysis" "Application of Crosstalk Concept to Assessment of Multi-Pinhole Collimator Designs in Small Animal SPECT Imaging"
10/19/2006	Eric C. Frey, Ph.D. DMIP	Potential Advantages of Photon-Counting MicroCT
10/12/2006	Mahadevappa Mahesh, M.S., Ph.D. DMIP	"Radiation doses in MDCT"
10/5/2006	Emad Boctor, Ph.D. DMIP	"Enabling Technologies for Ultrasound-Guided Interventions"
09/14/2006	Benjamin M.W. Tsui, Ph.D DMIP	Current Status and Operations of DMIP
09/5/2006	Yoshi Funama, Ph.D Kumamoto University, Japan	Radiation dose versus image quality in diagnostic x-ray procedure
	Round 2006-2007
07/31/2006	Ronald J. Jaszczak, Ph.D Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Duke University	Pinhole SPECT for Small Animal Molecular Imaging
07/25/2006	Grant T. Gullberg, Ph.D Senior Scientist of Nuclear medicine & Functional Imaging Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Molecular Imaging of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
07/18/2006	David Saloner, Ph.D Prof of Radiology at UCSF	Image-Based Modeling of Hemodynamics in Vascular Disease
05/17/2006	Susumu Mori, Ph.D Associate Prof, NMR, JHU	MRI of developing mouse brain
05/09/2006	Christopher Endres, Ph.D Assistant Prof., NeuroRadiology	Quantification and Kinetic Modeling in PET
05/02/2006	Paul Winnard Jr, Ph.D MRI, Radiology	Non-invasive Optical Tracking of Metastastic Progression in Live Animals