Position Title
Assistant Project Scientist
- Simulations & Image Reconstruction
Reimund is an Assistant Project Scientist affiliated with the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology at UC Davis. He earned a PhD in Physics in Siegen, Germany, and has been working at the EXPLORER Molecular Imaging Center, UC Davis, since 2021. Specializing in PET imaging over the past 5+ years, his work has focused on image reconstruction, data corrections, normalization as well as Monte Carlo-simulations. Currently, Reimund is exploring innovative scanner geometries, affordable imaging solutions, and advanced methods for assessing image quality. The latest research interest revolves around the evaluation of AI-based PET image enhancement methods and their impact on vital image quality metrics like lesion detectability, contrast, and tracer uptake.
- PhD in Physics, Siegen University, Germany
- Federal Research Award (R03) - National Institutes of Health (Award number: 1R03EB040241-01)
- Federal Research Award (R03) - National Institutes of Health (Award number: 1R03EB038661-01)
- Best Scientific Paper Award for 2024 - Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems
- Best Presentation Prize 2022 - American Association of Physicists in Medicine
- Supervised Machine Learning; Stanford Online
- PET image reconstruction algorithms
- Data corrections and normalization for PET
- Image Quality Assessment
- Evaluation of AI-based image enhancement
- Since 2021: Member of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging (SNMMI)
- 2019-2025: Board member at the German Physics Society (Division of Radiation and Medical Physics)