Congratulations to our graduate student Xiaoyu Duan for receiving the Best Abstract award submitted by a graduate student at the 2024 UC Davis Radiology Symposium. Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Chung for receiving the Best Abstracts Award submitted by a postdoc or fellow. This is his second time winning this award.
Our lab will have three abstracts to present at the upcoming 2024 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference in Tampa. Xiaoyu Duan, S Sarkar, V Lyo, S Romeo, K Matsukuma, V Medici, M Corwin, RD Badawi, and G. Wang. Quantification of 18F-FDG Delivery Rate for Liver Inflammation using Shortened Dynamic PET Imaging Protocols. 2024 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference,… Read More: 2024/07: IEEE Medical Imaging Conference Abstract Acceptance »
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: 2024/06: SNMMI Presentations on Total-Body PET Kinetic Modeling »
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: 2024/06: Yiran Wang’s Research Featured by Headlines of UC Davis… »
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: 2024/05: Two patents issued for parametric PET techniques with clinical… »
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: 2024/04: Yiran Wang Received JNM’s Alavi-Mandell Award »
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: 2024/03: 2024 UC Davis Molecular Liver Imaging Symposium Successfully Held »
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: 2023/10: Relative Patlak Plot Now Available on Commercial PET Scanners… »