We have two conference submissions on PET kinetic modeling methodologies accepted by the 2019 Annual Meeting of SNMMI, both for oral presentation.  Elizabeth Li, a graduate student of Biomedical Engineering who is jointly supervised by Drs. Simon Cherry and Guobao Wang, will present her work on total-body PET kinetic modeling:

Li E, Cherry SR, TarantalAF , Shi H, Chen S, Hu P, Ding Y, Hu D, Zhou P, Xu T, Wang C, Jones T, Badawi RD, Wang GB. Identification and comparison of image-derived input functions using total-body PET, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) 2019 Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, June 22-25, 2019.

Guobao will present a recent work on high-temporal resolution dynamic PET kinetic modeling:

Wang GB, Spencer B, Sarkar S, Shi H, Chen S, Hu P, Ding Y, Hu D, Zhou P, Xu T, Wang C, Jones T, Cherry SR, Badawi RD. Quantification of Glucose Transport Using High Temporal Resolution Dynamic PET Imaging. Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) 2019 Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, June 22-25, 2019.

Guobao receives promotion to Associate Professor, effective July 1st.

Guobao receives a NIH/NIBIB Trailblazer Award (R21). We will explore and develop the feasibility and potential of a novel PET-enabled dual-energy spectral CT method. Success of this research will add spectral CT imaging as a new dimension of information to clinical PET/CT without increasing imaging cost, time, and radiation dose.