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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

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

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

Image Processing and Clinical Trials

Negar Omidvari, Ph.D.

LYSO Background Utilization & T-Cell Imaging

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

Instrumentation & Phantom development

UC Davis Clinical Imaging Team

Rosalie Hagge, M.D.

Clinical Professor
UC Davis Dept. of Radiology

Phu Huynh, CT, CNMT

Nuclear Medicine Technologist Supervisor

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

Associate Clinical Professor
UC Davis Dept. of Radiology

UC Davis Radiology Research Support

Lynda Painting, BS, CCRP, CCRC

Sr Clinical Research Coordinator

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

Elizabeth Li, Ph.D.

Kinetic Modeling & [C11]-Butanol Studies

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

Eric Berg, Ph.D.

Motion Correction & PET Data Corrections

Denise Caudle, CNMT

Nuclear Medicine Technologist Supervisor

Aaron Selfridge, Ph.D.

Image Processing & Computational Infrastructure

Varsha Viswanath

Attenuation Correction and Instrumentation

Zhaoheng Xie, Ph.D.

Scatter Correction & Image Reconstruction

UC Davis Biomedical Engineering and Radiology Team Members

Benjamin Spencer Project ManagementEric Berg Systems EngineerAaron Selfridge Singles AcquisitionJulien Bec Patient Motion CharacterizationXuezhu Zhang Simulations/ReconstructionEdwin Leung PET Data CorrectionsEmilie Roncali Y90 PET DosimetryElizabeth Li Kinetic ModelingYasser Abdelhafez Image Processing and Clinical TrialsJim Herod Database Management