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NIH Study Section Panel
Dr. Fei was invited to particpate the NIH Biomedical Imaging Technology (BMIT) Study Section. The BMIT Study Section reviews grant applications involving basic, applied, and pre-clinical aspects of the design and development of medical imaging system technologies, their components, software, and mathematical methods for studies at the cellular, organ, small or large animal, and human scale.
Early detection of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease with x-ray phase CT
Principal Investigator:Xiangyang Tang, PhD
Co-Investigators: Carolyn C. Meltzer, MD, Hui Mao, PhD, Marla Gearing, PhD
Alzheimer's disease (AD) has become the most common (60-80%) neurodegenerative disease with dementia as its clinical symptom. The proposed x-ray tube and grating based phase CT will potentially provide a modality for early detection and accurate therapeutic assessment of AD based on direct imaging of amyloid plaques. As a more accessible alternative to 11C-PiB or 18F-AV45 PET imaging, this novel imaging method may substantially benefit the preclinical and clinical diagnostic and treatment applications for AD with markedly improved (i) low contrast detectability and dose efficiency compared to the conventional CT and (ii) clinical potential compared to the diffraction enhancement based phase CT using crystal x-ray monochromator and synchrotron.
More about Physics & Computing
Hesheng, W, Baowei, F. An MR image-guided, voxel-based partial volume correction method for PET images. Medical Physics. 39(1):179-194, Jan. 2012.
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Investing in the Advances of Residency
Dr. Richard Colvin, Emeritus Professor of Radiology, recently made a generous gift establishing the Radiology Residency Education Endowment Fund. This endowment will provide financial support to ensure that Emory residents continue to have access to advancements and education within the discipline of Radiology.
Read more in the May issue of the Rad Report
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