Presentations

Stanford Cancer Institute Breakthroughs in Cancer 

Lorenzo Nardo, MD, PhD

Stanford Institute Cancer Seminar 2024: Watch Video


Transforming medical imaging 

Simon Cherry and Ramsey Badawi on total-body PET

National Imaging Facility 2024

Simon Cherry and Ramsey Badawi’s visionary work has redefined the boundaries of medical imaging, enhancing the precision of detecting disease, and opening new avenues for research and treatment.


How Persistence, Collaboration and Lucky Breaks Brought Total-Body PET to Clinical Practice

Simon R. Cherry, Ph.D. Ramsey D. Badawi, Ph.D. Lorenzo Nardo, M.D., Ph.D.

RSNA 2023: View presentation PDF

At the RSNA/AAPM Symposium, presenters shared the journey toward development—and the revolutionary potential—of the first clinical medical device that images the entire human body at once. Read More


Cassen Award Lecture: "A Matter of Time" 

Simon Cherry, PhD

SNMMI Annual Meeting 2022. Watch Video
Total Body PET Compartmental Visualization - Watch Video


Performance evaluation of the EXPLORER Total-body PET/CT scanner based on NEMA NU-2 2018 standard with additional tests for extended geometry

Benjamin A. Spencer, Jeffrey P. Schmall, Eric Berg, Negar Omidvari, Edwin Leung, Zilin Deng, Songsong Tang, Yun Dong, Yang Lv, Weiping Liu, Jun Bao, Hongdi Li, Terry Jones, Ramsey D. Badawi, and Simon R. Cherry

IEEE MIC, Manchester, UK, 2019 View presentation PDF


Initial Results From the World's First Total-Body Positron Emission Tomograph

Ramsey Badawi,Weiping Liu, Tianyi Xu, Yu Ding, Yang Lv, Xinyu Lv, Jun Li, Ang Dong, Yun Feng Guo, Miao Li, Shaohui An, Yun Dong, Jun Bao, Hongdi Li , Eric Berg, Xuezhu Zhang, Martin Judenhofer, Edwin Leung, Jinyi Qi, Terry Jones, and Simon Cherry

RSNA Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2018 View presentation PDF


Physical performance of the first total-body EXPLORER PET scanner and preclinical applications with mini-EXPLORER systems + first human images!

IEEE Medical Imaging Conference - Total-Body PET Imaging Workshop, Sydney, Australia, 2018 View presentation PDF


Feasibility Evaluation of a long axial field-of-view PET scanner for non-human primates

IEEE Medical Imaging Conference(MIC) , Strasbourg, France, 2016 View presentation PDF


Feasibility Study of Micro-Dose Total-Body Dynamic PET Imaging Using the EXPLORER

Society for Nuclear Medicine (SNM) Conference, St. Louis, MO, USA, 2014 View presentation PDF


EXPLORER: An Ultra-Sensitive Total Body PET Scanner for Biomedical Research

IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Seoul, Korea, 2013 View presentation PDF


Investigation of Time-of-Flight PET Detectors with Depth Encoding

World Molecular Imaging Congress, Savannah, GA, 2013 View presentation PDF


EXPLORER - An Ultrasensitive Total-Body PET scanner: Application Feasibility Simulations

World Molecular Imaging Congress, Savannah, GA, 2013 View the conference poster