Total-body PET Scanner

The EXPLORER consortium involves numerous researchers, engineers, and clinical imaging personnel, from several institutions including UC Davis, U Penn, and our industry partners.

Project Leaders

Ramsey Badawi, Ph.D.

Professor
University of California, Davis

Simon Cherry, Ph.D

Distinguished Professor
University of California, Davis

Terry Jones, Ph.D.

Clinical Professor
University of California, Davis

Joel Karp, Ph.D.

Professor
University of Pennsylvania

Lorenzo Nardo, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor
EXPLORER Molecular Imaging Center, Medical Director
UC Davis Dept. of Radiology

Jinyi Qi, Ph.D.

Professor
University of California, Davis

Emilie Roncali, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
University of California, Davis

Guobao Wang, Ph.D.

Professor
University of California, Davis

UC Davis Biomedical Engineering and Radiology Team Members

Siqi Li, Ph.D.

Multiparametric PET imaging with AI

Yasser Abdelhafez, M.D., Ph.D.

Image Processing and Clinical Trials

Reimund Bayerlein, Ph.D.

Simulations & Image Reconstruction

Kevin Chung, Ph.D.

Tracer Kinetic Modeling

Xiaoyu Duan, Ph.D. Student

Total-body PET kinetic modeling

Clemens Mingels, MD

Clinical Research

Hande Nalbant, MD

Clinical Research

Negar Omidvari, Ph.D.

LYSO Background Utilization & T-Cell Imaging

Ekaterina Shanina, M.Sc, Ph.D. Candidate

Instrumentation & Phantom development

Benjamin Spencer, Ph.D.

Technical Director

Qian Wang, Ph.D.

Image Processing & Reconstruction

Yansong Zhu, Ph.D.

Image reconstruction & Kinetic modeling

UC Davis Clinical Imaging Team

Daniel Cooper, CT, CNMT

Sr. Nuclear Medicine Technologist

Cameron Foster, M.D.

Professor
UC Davis Dept. of Radiology

Diane Gruelle, CT, CNMT

Sr. Nuclear Medicine Technologist

Rosalie Hagge, M.D.

Clinical Professor
UC Davis Dept. of Radiology

Phu Huynh, CT, CNMT

Nuclear Medicine Technologist Supervisor

Bryce Martin, CNMT

Sr. Nuclear Medicine Technologist

Inna Pfafenrot, CNMT

Sr. Nuclear Medicine Technologist

Tamara Sabathia

Medical Office Service Coordinator

Fatma Sen, M.D., M.Sc.

Associate Clinical Professor
UC Davis Dept. of Radiology

UC Davis Radiology Research Support

Dana Little, MHA, CCRP

Clinical Research Supervisor

Yasamin Mohammad

Research Data Analyst

Lynda Painting, BS, CCRP, CCRC

Sr Clinical Research Coordinator

Ofilio Vigil, MS, CCRP

Protocol Development Officer

UC Davis CT Physics Team

John Boone, Ph.D.

Professor
UC Davis Department of Radiology

Tony Seibert, Ph.D.

Professor
UC Davis Department of Radiology

University of Pennsylvania Team Members

Margaret Daube-Whitherspoon

Scanner Characterization and Reconstruction

Michael Geagan

Penn PET EXPLORER Development

Elizabeth Li, Ph.D.

Kinetic Modeling & [C11]-Butanol Studies

Suleman Surti

Simulations/Image Quality

Pre-clinical Imaging and Mini-EXPLORER Imaging Teams

Abhijit Chaudhari

Leader of Pre-clinical and Mini-EXPLORER I
(Primate Center) imaging team

Mathieu Spriet

(UC Davis Veterinary Medicine) Companion Animal Imaging

Alice Tarantal

(California National Primate Imaging Center) Primate Imaging

Erik Wisner

(UC Davis Veterinary Medicine) Companion Animal Imaging

Allison Zwingenberger

Leader of Pre-clinical and Mini-EXPLORER II
(UC Davis Veterinary Medicine) imaging team

Former Members

Julien Bec

Patient Motion Characterization

Eric Berg, Ph.D.

Motion Correction & PET Data Corrections

Matteo Bovio

(UC Davis) Image Processing

George Burkett, M.M.E

Mechanical Engineer

Anna Calabrò, M.D.

Clinical Research

Denise Caudle, CNMT

Nuclear Medicine Technologist Supervisor

Jim Herod

Database Admin

Martin Judenhofer

Project Management

Edwin Leung

Data Corrections and Quantification

William Moses

Ashwin Muralidharan

Database & Systems Programmer

Qiyu Peng

(LBNL) Electronics

Jonathan Poon

(UC Davis) Simulations

Enette Revilla, M.Sc.

Motion Correction & PET Image Denoising

Jeffrey Schmall

UIH Clinical Collaborations Manager

Aaron Selfridge, Ph.D.

Image Processing & Computational Infrastructure

Varsha Viswanath

Attenuation Correction and Instrumentation

Ken Waller

Facilities Planning

Yiran Wang, Ph.D.

Kinetic Modeling

Rick Wray

Nuclear Medicine Physician

Zhaoheng Xie, Ph.D.

Scatter Correction & Image Reconstruction

Xuezhu Zhang, Ph.D.

Simulations/Reconstruction