Dr. Siqi Li and Dr. Kevin Chung attended the SNMMI Annual Meeting in Toronto, June 8-11, 2024. Each of them presented their latest work on total-body PET kinetic modeling and parametric imaging. Siqi Li, YG Abdelhafez, L Nardo, SR Cherry, RD Badawi, GB Wang.Total-body parametric imaging using relative Patlak plot with self-supervised deep learning noise… Read More »
Dr. Yiran Wang’s research on dynamic PET imaging of the dual-blood supply effect in lung tissue and lung tumors was featured in the Headlines of UC Davis Health News on June 7th: “Lung cancer breakthroughs: New imaging technologies may change course for top cancer killer” This was one of the works that Yiran had done… Read More »
At the Northern California Chapter of the AAPM 2024 Young Investigator Symposium held on May 17th in Davis, Dr. Kevin Chung won the First Place prize in the Postdoc category for his talk “Imaging the Molecular Permeability of the Blood-Brain Barrier with a Single Total-Body Dynamic PET Scan.” Congratulations, Kevin!
UC Davis has received two patents on parametric PET techniques that explore the molecular transport properties of radiotracers for clinical applications after four years since filing. One patent (inventors: Guobao Wang, Souvik Sarkar, and Ramsey Badawi) is on a liver parametric PET method for measuring hepatic inflammation in fatty liver disease. In combination with CT… Read More »
Dr. Yiran Wang (who is now a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF) received the Alavi-Mandell Award from the Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) for his two JNM papers in 2023: Wang Y, Spencer BA, Schmall J, Li E, Badawi RD, Jones T, Cherry SR, Wang GB. High-temporal resolution lung kinetic modeling using total-body dynamic PET with… Read More »
We successfully organized the 2024 UC Davis Molecular Liver Imaging Symposium: Collaboration in Systemic Diseases on March 11th, 2024 in the Medical Center. Focusing on the area of liver imaging, colleagues at UC Davis Health organized three symposiums in the past eight years – the first one in 2016 (Organizers: Souvik Sarkar, MD and Michael… Read More »
Congratulations to Dr. Siqi Li for promotion to Assistant Project Scientist Step 2 and Dr. Yansong Zhu for promotion to Assistant Project Scientist Step 1 in the Department of Radiology, effective March 1st, 2024. They have significantly and uniquely contributed to our PET parametric imaging research program at UC Davis Health.
The Relative Patlak Plot method, which was developed by our lab in 2018, is now made available on commercial PET scanners by a major manufacturer for clinical use. Compared to other methods, this method does not require the early-time blood input function and is therefore much easier to integrate with a clinical scan protocol for… Read More »
We are delighted to announce that our Ph.D. candidate Yiran Wang successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Total-body PET Kinetic Modeling and Parametric Imaging with Applications to Lung Diseases and Beyond”. Yiran conducted this research under the joint supervision of Dr. Guobao Wang and Dr. Simon Cherry. The members of his dissertation committee also include… Read More »
Ms. Anahita Tavakoli joins the lab as a new graduate student. She received her B.S. degree in Cognitive Science at the University of California, Davis. Anahita will be studying how the brain is changed in systemic disease using the total-body parametric PET technology. Welcome Anahita!